Writing plugins

With this tutorial you can learn, how to create structured editors using the Hextant framework. To understand the tutorial, you should have a pretty good grasp of the Kotlin language, as the complete framework is written in Kotlin. Working with Java is theoretically possible, but will prove to be very cumbersome.
Additionally, you should know how to create graphical user interface with the JavaFX framework and are expected to know the Gradle build tool.

Overview

It is recommended to read the individual articles in the following order:

• Setting up Hextant locally.
• Understanding the architecture basic of Hextant
• Getting to know the basic editor type
• Deploying plugins locally
• Contexts and properties
• Providing your editors with auto-completion
• Adding commands to your editors
• Getting to know the reaktive-api
• Getting to know the validated-api
• Adding inspections to your editors
• Configuring the looks of your editors via stylesheets
• JavaFX related topics

There are also tutorials about more advanced and implementation-specific topics:

• Implementing custom editors
• Snapshots and serializations
• More about the validated-API
• More about the reaktive-API
• The Aspect System
• More about the plugin initializer
• Configurable and persistent properties