Pimp My Editor "Taking Eclipse to the film Industry" #ece2011

PimpMy EditorTaking Eclipse to the Film industry

@freire_da_silva ffreire@thoughtworks.com

Alexandre Freire@freire_da_silva

alex@indutriallogic.com

Fernando Freireffreire@thoughtworks.com

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Script Writing - Overview

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Tone and Rhythm

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Tracks and Scenes Table

It’s a big RCP application

•45 plugins•22 test plugins

•5 fragments •9 features•7 products

•66k lines of code•62k lines of test code

Latin America’s biggest production company

Our client: Paulo Morelli

What’s wrong with Final Draft?

What’s wrong with Final Draft?

Nothing! After all everybody uses it...

Project Inception

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Project Inception

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Project Inception

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Fast delivery Customized

Project Inception

X XUL RCP

Fast delivery Customized

Project Inception

X XUL RCP

Fast delivery Customized

MPL EPL

Project Inception

X XUL RCP

Fast delivery Customized

MPL EPL

Development: 3 month Prototype

1st Iteration: June 08

Software for controlled use

Agile: Continuous Integration

4th Iteration: October 08

Does the client want to Demo?

•Not yet...

•Only imports from Final Draft

•Can’t change text

•We need an editor

•New deadline

6th Iteration: December 08

Demo?

New rules

•It’s my product now!

•Pay the technical debt

•Less presure

•No deadline

Difficulties

Eclipse Goodies: StyledText

But it doesn’t do everything

•Header•Footer•Pages•Print•Export to PDF•Zoom•Count lines•Variable margins•Paragraph spacing•Soft-wrap•WYSIWYG

Agile but small

Agile: Collaboration

•Closed scope contract•3 iterations•Phased integration

•Merge pain•Took longer than expected•Performance issues

Lessons: extend Eclipse’s components

Fragment

The result

ExtendedStyledText: APIExtend SourceViewer:

•Use a custom DocumentAdapter

•Create ExtendedStyledText

ExtendedStyledText: API

Your DocumentAdaptor needs to implement:

ExtendedStyledText: APIFor Headers and Footers:

You can also decorate lines

ExtendedStyledText: Architecture

Agile: Premature Optimization

Open Source: we love it!https://github.com/thoughtworks/eclipse_editor_widget

Eclipse Goodies: Dynamic Contribution Items

Eclipse Goodies: P2

Eclipse Goodies: PDE

Eclipse Goodies: Perspectives

Eclipse Goodies: Perspectives

Eclipse Goodies: Perspectives

Eclipse Goodies: i18n

Eclipse Goodies: Auto Complete

Eclipse Goodies: Themes

Eclipse Goodies: Themes

the emo storywe had to override some stuff, art director, looking forward to eclipse 4 - CSS!

Eclipse Goodies: Feature based Product

Eclipse Goodies: Undo and Redo

Eclipse Goodies: Community

Agile: TDD

Agile: Tracking Technical Debt

Agile: Refactoring

Agile: Pair Programming

Agile: Functional Tests

Agile: Prioritizing

Agile: Close interaction with end users

Present State

Collaborate!https://github.com/thoughtworks/eclipse_editor_widget

•USE IT!•6 FIXMEs•5 TODOs•Testing•More Testing•Support for RTF Cut & Paste•More Page Sizes•Images•Eclipse 4 version

Thank YouQuestions ???

@freire_da_silva ffreire@thoughtworks.com

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