1 This file describes the "gscripts" folder in ADT (Android Eclipse Plugin). 2 3 4 ---------- 5 - Overview 6 ---------- 7 8 ADT is the Android Eclipse Plugin. The plugin delivers a new editor, called 9 the the Graphical Layout Editor (a.k.a. GLE2), to visually edit Android layout 10 XML files. 11 12 Details on how to handle the various Android views and layouts is not 13 hardcoded in the GLE2 itself. Instead it is differed to a bunch of Groovy 14 scripts. 15 16 17 (TODO: expand/replace with a better overview of implementation... goal is 18 to use this a doc for 3rd-party projects to implement their own rules.) 19 20 21 22 ------------- 23 - Groovy tips 24 ------------- 25 26 27 - Debugging: 28 29 If you run ADT in debug mode and want to trace into Groovy 30 methods, you need to tell Eclipse where to find the Groovy source code. 31 32 To do this: 33 - in Eclipse, import an existing project 34 - Select the project at <android-source-tree>/prebuilt/common/groovy/ 35 - This will add a new Eclipse project named "GroovySrc" which contains 36 a single zip file with the groovy source. 37 - ADT is already pre-configured to find the Groovy source in the GroovySrc 38 project. 39 40 41 42 - Private methods: 43 44 Be careful when adding new helper methods in the BaseView 45 or BaseLayout classes. 46 47 Due to the way Groovy looks up methods, private methods will *not* be found by 48 same-class methods if invoked by a derived class in the context of a closure 49 (which is about the case of all these helper methods.) 50
