About Astyle Eclipse
Astyle Eclipse is based on Astyle program, it aims to provide a C/C++ formatter for CDT plugin in eclipse. so all the supported format optional shall check astyle
The project started as a fork from example indent plugin in CDT plugin and get the java ported astyle source codes from astyle-plugin for jedit, then the astyleclipse comes out
The application is available as a plugin for Eclipse 3.2.
the webpage style is copied from Eclipse SQL Exployer
If you like, please Rate this plugin @ Eclipse Plugin Center, and leave your comments
Installation Instructions
Eclipse Plugin
Download
Download
the Astyle Eclipse plugin and extract the zip file in your eclipse directory.
After restarting eclipse with the -clean option,
select Astyle Plugin in C/C++ format.
Eclipse Update Site
You can install and update Astyle Eclipse via the eclipse update mechanism. The update site for Astyle Eclipse is http://astyleclipse.sourceforge.net/update, (support eclipse3.2+)
Getting started
In Preference choose Astyle Plugin in C++ Code Formatter, then right click in editor and choose Format to use.
see screenshots for what the preference page looks like
Release
Plan
- it is planned to release 1.1.0 (Mud) (astyle engine 1.19) in 2006.10.23
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"request if you needs?" check project tasks - release 0.9.0 (based on 1.0.100) for eclipse 3.1 in 2006.10.13. [Passed]
- release 1.0.0 in 2006.09.23, see release news [Passed]
Notes
2006.10.20 [error] - version 1.0.101 bug fix - remove JDK5.0 specific codes to support jdk1.4, but it doesn't work
2006.10.14 - version 0.9.0 new - supports eclipse 3.1
2006.10.04 - version 1.0.100 bug fix - update preview fonts to support mac os
2006.10.01 - version 1.0.5 improve - support preview and more options
Requirements
For astyleclipse 1.0.x versions: Eclipse 3.2
For astyleclipse 0.9.x versions: Eclipse 3.1.x or Eclipse 3.2
JDK 1.4 or JDK 1.5
I don't want to maintain two lines, it is only because the Eclipse-LazyStart/Eclipse-AutoStart in MANIFEST.MF for different eclipse, do you have good suggestion ?
Acknowledgements
- Big thanks to the astyle project of creating nice Artistic style format tool
- thanks to Dirk Moebius who ported astyle 1.14.1 to java version
- thanks to SourceForge for giving Artistic Style its home
- thanks to Eclipse.org for giving this excellent platform
- thanks to cenqua who provide free license of clover, which is a plugin to take care of the quality of my codes
- thanks to the first user (Jimmy) who bring me quick feedback, which give me energy
- Patrick drives me to support jdk1.4 under eclipse 3.2
- thanks to everyone who visited this webpage, bb