[oXygen-user] selection plugin results to result pane?

[George Cristian Bina]

Hi Cristian,

There is no support for triggering something in the result pane from a 
selection plugin. However, it is possible to have an external tool 
output in a specified format that will result in an entry in the result 
pane.

We are considering also extending the plugin support in oXygen to allow 
more complex interactions between plugins and oXygen. It will be great 
if you can provide more details about the use case, what you actually 
want to solve, that will help us make sure that the extensions will 
cover also this.

It may be possible also to solve easily your use case with other 
functionality currently provided by oXygen. For example if what you want 
the lookup for is to providing content completion proposals then that 
can be implemented as a content completion filter that receives the 
proposals oXygen want to present, the context and returns back an 
updated list of proposals.

Best Regards,
George
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George Cristian Bina
<oXygen/> XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

Christian Wittern wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> In a recent discussion with fellow TEI encoders who use oXygen as one of
> their XML editors, as one of the reasons *nat* to use oXygen was mentioned
> that in oXygen one can not use a selection to, for example trigger a
> database lookup with a result displayed in a result panel.  Now, pondering
> this question, I was looking at the plugin types and wondered, if the
> SelectionPlugin could be used to develop something like this.  However,
> according to the documentation, apparently the results of the Selection
> Plugin always go back and replace the selection, which is unwanted in this
> case.  Also, it is not clear to me, if actions taken in the plugin could
> show their results in the result pane?
> 
> Best,  Christian
>