Design Element Feature Extension

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Configuration Markup:

<!ELEMENT extension (metamodel+)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id    CDATA #IMPLIED

name  CDATA #IMPLIED

<!ELEMENT metamodel EMPTY>

<!ATTLIST metamodel

name                  CDATA #REQUIRED

id                    CDATA #REQUIRED

category              CDATA #IMPLIED

path                  CDATA #IMPLIED

fileFilterExtension   CDATA #IMPLIED

customDefinitionClass CDATA #IMPLIED

• name - required, translatable : name of the design element shown in the navigator
• id - required, unique id for this design element
• category - Optional: reference to a metamodel Category id. If supplied, must be one of the existing categories in Domino Designer. Refer to the constants in IDesignElementExtensionDesc for valid values.
• path - Optional : name of the folder in the other Eclipse perspectives for the folder that contains instances of this design element
• fileFilterExtension - File extension for this design element. All contributed design elements must have unique extensions.
• customDefinitionClass - Extends com.ibm.designer.domino.ide.resources.metamodel.IDesignElementExtension to describe the design element and its behaviors. Provides strings and icons for menus and display as well whether or not, for example, the design element supports an alias.

Examples:

 
<extension point="com.ibm.designer.domino.ide.resources.metamodel">
  <!-- Define the design element such as Forms, each meta model defines a Design Element type -->
      <metamodel
          customDefinitionClass="com.acme.designer.jars.JarDesignElementExtension" 
          fileFilterExtension="mde" 
          name="Jars"
          category="com.ibm.designer.domino.ide.metamodel.data"
          id="jar.design.element" 
          path="Jars">
      </metamodel>
 </extension>

 

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