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| <h2>Activities Editor Pages</h2> |
| <P CLASS="Para">The activities editor consists of three pages, the Viewers Page, |
| the Descriptions Page and the "activities.xml" Page.</P> |
| <P CLASS="Para"> <strong>Viewers Page</strong></P> |
| <P CLASS="Para">The viewers page has two separate viewers, one viewer is for the |
| plug-ins and fragments, and the other viewer is for the categories and activities, |
| as well as plug-ins and fragments. </P> |
| <P CLASS="Para">The first viewer displays all the plug-ins and fragments located |
| in Eclipse's workspace directory. The second viewer displays the categories, |
| the activities bound to categories and the plug-ins bound to activities. The |
| latter items are also initially read from Eclipse's workspace directory. <br> |
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| <p><img src="../images/viewer.png" alt="Image of Viewers page" border="0" ></p> |
| <p><strong>Descriptions Page</strong></p> |
| <p> Categories and activities are defined by mandatory IDs, names and optional |
| descriptions. The descriptions page has two viewers, one which allows for the |
| modification of categories' descriptions and the other of activities' descriptions. |
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| <p>The first viewer displays the categories, their respective ID, name and the |
| editable description field. The second viewer shows the same information for |
| the current activities. When the editor switches to another page, the descriptions |
| are then updated in the "activities.xml" file. <br> |
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| <p><img src="../images/description.png" alt="Image of Descriptions page" border="0" ></p> |
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| <p><strong>"activities.xml" Page</strong></p> |
| <p> When the "activities.xml" page tab is clicked it updates automatically. |
| The file will contain the category, activity, and binding definitions represented |
| in the viewers' page. </p> |
| <p><img src="../images/xml.png" alt="Image of activities.xml page" border="0" ></p> |
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| <p><strong>Generated Format </strong> </p> |
| <p>Activity pattern bindings are created when plug-ins are added to an activity. |
| The patterns follow a syntax similar to the following example: "org\.eclipse\.pde/.*" |
| for the plug-in "org.eclipse.pde". If all the plug-ins starting with |
| "org.eclipse.pde" have been added to the same activity, the individual |
| plug-ins patterns are replaced with "org\.eclipse\.pde\..*/.*". Similarly, |
| on removal of a plug-in from an activity where the latter pattern is defined, |
| the pattern will be replaced by the patterns of the plug-ins remaining in that |
| activity. The activity editor will read activity pattern bindings on start up |
| from defined "org.eclipse.activities" extensions defined in other |
| plug-ins if and only if they follow the syntax described above.</P> |
| <p>A unique ID is generated when an activity is created. The ID has the following |
| format: "activityName" + Activity, where the activity name has been |
| stripped from spaces, and converted to lower case. A unique ID is generated |
| when a category is created. The ID will have the following format: "categoryName" |
| + Category, where the category name has been stripped from spaces, and converted |
| to lower case. </P> |
| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelc.png" alt="Related concepts." ><br> |
| <a href="../concepts/concepts-activites.htm">Activities</a></p> |
| <p><img border="0" src="../images/ngrelt.png" alt="Related tasks" ><br> |
| <a href="../tasks/tasks-activites.htm">Activities Example</a></p> |
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