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One implementation of Modelica is the open-source platform JModelica.org. It contains the JModelica.org IDE; that provides a text editor for Modelica code; based on the Eclipse platform.
In this paper; we present an implementation of a graphical editor for the JModelica.org IDE. Several challenges with implementing a graphical editor for Modelica are discussed. Among others; the difficulties in rendering Modelica diagrams and how to interact with existing frameworks in Eclipse are brought up. A method for preserving the formatting of a modified source code file is also presented; which is essential when the model is altered in the graphical editor.
The presented implementation is compared to other open source software (OSS) implementations of Modelica editors.
Keywords: AST; JModelica.org; Eclipse; GEF; Graphical Editing; Icon Rendering; Preserved File Formatting; Pretty Printing
Proceedings of the 9th International MODELICA Conference; September 3-5; 2012; Munich; Germany
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