| The submitted patch serves two purposes: it assigns an 'F' icon to all Fortran source files (*.f, *.f77, etc.) and assigns a project nature image for Fortran projects. This is shown in the attached screenshot. | |
| The first part is easy to understand. The Fortran file navigator (represented by org.eclipse.photran.cdtinterface.ui.FortranView), uses a label provider to assign text/images to resources in the workspace. The CDT view uses a CViewLabelProvider for this, and I created a subclass called FViewLabelProvider. This checks the suffix of source files in the Fortran navigator and assigns f_file_obj.gif to any Fortran files. | |
| The second part is more involved. To ensure that Fortran projects can be distinguished from other projects, I took the following steps: | |
| 1. Created a class called org.eclipse.photran.core.FProjectNature, which is essentially a copy of the CDT's CProjectNature. Defined an extension for the nature (org.eclipse.core.resources.natures) in plugin.xml. | |
| 2. Defined an extension for org.eclipse.ui.ide.projectNatureImages in org.eclipse.photran.ui. This tells Eclipse to display the Fortran project icon (f_ovr.gif) whenever a project's *first* nature is org.eclipse.photran.core.fnature. | |
| 3. Added code to FortranProjectWizard so that all Photran created projects have Fortran nature in addition to C nature. Added a lot of code so that this nature is the project's *first* nature. This doesn't affect any of the other natures, but it ensures that the Fortran icon will be displayed whenever the project is shown. | |
| Two last notes. The FViewLabelProvider only works if f_file_obj.gif is placed in the icons folder in the org.eclipse.photran.cdtinterface plug-in. I created my own icon for the project nature (f_ovr.gif), and it must be placed in the icons/full/obj16 folder in the org.eclipse.photran.ui plug-in. | |
| If you have any questions or comments, please e-mail me at matt.scarpino@eclipseengineer.com. |