James Tauber's Blog 2004/07/02
Film Project Update: Week Two
It's not written up as a treatment yet, but James Marcus and I pretty much have the story worked out (mostly during trips in his car). The Ferris Bueller connection probably isn't going to work but maybe that can be saved for another film.
My goal is to write up the treatment this weekend and maybe sketch out some of the key dialog. I might try out some script editing software too, which reminds me: I've wanted to do a script editing plugin for Eclipse pretty much since 2.0.
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My First Eclipse RCP Application
After I told a colleague about the Calkin-Wilf tree (see Enumerating the Rationals in Python), he suggested a program that would generate the tree graphically.
I decided it was a good excuse to try writing my first Eclipse 3.0 rich-client platform (RCP) application. Given the children of each node in the Calkin-Wilf tree are derivable solely from the node itself, it just took a little tree content provider and the RCP skeleton pretty much copied straight from the example app referenced in the online doc.
It worked out pretty well. Writing the application itself was straightforward; packaging it up with the necessary components from the RCP platform was not. It took a lot of trial and error to get the minimal set of additional plugins and to bootstrap the execution of the application outside of the IDE.
What I would like to see (and I'm sure will be in 3.1) are some improvements to the plugin development environment specifically for RCP; namely, a wizard for creating the base skeleton (plugin, app class and advisor class) and a wizard for packaging the RCP app for standalone execution.
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