Question

Is it possible to embed a text editor (with syntax coloring and content assist) within my own custom Eclipse editor? I am under the impression that a text editor (with features like syntax coloring) needs to extend IEditorPart or one of its subclasses, but am I correct in thinking that an IEditorPart subclass can’t be embedded because it’s not part of Eclipse SWT? And if that’s true, is there another way to get that functionality?

To expand on this “custom Eclipse editor”: I’m referring to an editor with multiple tabs, and in one of the tabs I want to embed a text editor with syntax coloring, and possibly content assist.

Answer 1

Right, you cannot embed IEditorPart, instead you could inherit your editor from a concrete IEditorPart implementor and override custom aspects thereof.