New Explorer

[vibsid0986]

Hello Team,

I recently came across a functionality in the Smartface application, as shown below, and I was wondering how I can create a new Explorer menu that includes all the basic components (e.g., navigator panel, components panel, main panel with tabs that can be opened and closed). While I’m familiar with creating these components individually using widgets like the Navigator widget and Tree widget, I wanted to check if there is any pre-existing plugin or framework that I can use to assemble these features. Alternatively, would I need to rewrite the entire code for the navigator, component panel, and main panel from scratch?

Also, what’s the best approach that you would recommend for implementing this functionality?

Thank you in advance for your help!

Best regards,
Siddhant

[msujew]

Hey @vibsid0986,

aside from the ViewContainer and TreeWidget, we don't provide any additional API to enable building such widgets.

Alternatively, would I need to rewrite the entire code for the navigator, component panel, and main panel from scratch?

You won't need to implement the code for the panels (i.e. the dedicated spaces that hold widgets on the left, right, bottom or main section), but you need to build the widgets themselves from scratch, yes. Theia is a general purpose IDE framework, and aside from a few, very dedicated use cases (see CDT Cloud), we don't provide building blocks for building tool specific widgets.

[JonasHelming]

Just for completeness: Theia is a general purpose IDE and tool framework :-)