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RAP CSS Tooling
While I was working on sample for "Eclipse4 on RAP" I had to use RAP CSS to get a mobile like behavior. The CSS/Themeing support in RAP is quite powerful but one has to have a web-page opened to see all possible attributes applicable to a certain control which is not how we are used to work in an IDE dominated world. We want content-assist, error reporting while typing, ... but naturally none of the CSS-Editors know about the rap-specific selectors and properties. Fortunately e(fx)clipse has an CSS extensible editor which is backed by a generic format definition what properties are available on which selector. All that has to be done to teach it additional CSS-Selectors and CSS-Properties is to create a file like this. If you now:
- Have a recent nightly build of e(fx)clipse tooling installed (You can get an all in one build from downloads.efxclipse.bestsolution.at)
- Install the additional RAP-CSS-Tooling from http://downloads.foss.bestsolution.at/rapcss/nightly/site/
- Make you RAP-CSS file end with .rapcss
you should get an editing feeling like the screencast below. Watch on YouTube