Installing the ULC Visual Editor
To install the ULC Visual Editor:
- Download and install ULC if you do not have ULC 6.2. Get a license key for ULC.
- Make sure that you have installed the appropriate Eclipse version. If not, it can be downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org.
- Get an appropriate license key for the ULC Visual Editor version chosen by you.
- Download and run the ULC Visual Editor installer.
- During installation, the License Information dialog box displays. Copy and paste the license key you received by email into the License Information text box.
- Select Typical to install Eclipse Visual Editor in addition to ULC Visual Editor.
- The installer copies a link file called com.canoo.ulc.visualeditor.link in your $ECLIPSE_INSTALL_DIR/links. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly specify your Eclipse Home Directory during installation. Otherwise, you will need to manually copy the link file.
- Start Eclipse and select Help > About Eclipse Platform and you should see the ULC Visual Editor icon.
- Next, check the plug-ins details. To display the plug-ins in Eclipse, select Help > About Eclipse Platform > Plug-in Details and you should see the ULC Visual Editor and Eclipse Visual Editor related plugins as described in the ULC Visual Editor Release Notes.
- To use ULC Visual Editor within your ULC projects in Eclipse you need to:
- Add the ULC libraries to the
class path of your ULC project. For details see the Online Help
provided with the ULC Visual Editor. Select Help > Help Contents > ULC Visual Editor Help > Using the ULC Visual Editor in a ULC Project.
- The online help includes a tutorial and useful tips on how to use the ULC Visual Editor.
- Add the ULC libraries to the
class path of your ULC project. For details see the Online Help
provided with the ULC Visual Editor. Select Help > Help Contents > ULC Visual Editor Help > Using the ULC Visual Editor in a ULC Project.
Note: if you have already installed Eclipse, you may also use the Eclipse Update Site to install the ULC Visual Editor as follows:
- Start Eclipse.
- Select Help > Software Updates > Find and Install...
- Select Search for new features to install.
- Click New Remote Site....
- Type ULC Update Site as name and http://update.canoo.com/eclipse as URL.
- Expand the ULC Update Site node and select ULC Visual
Editor. Note that installing ULC Visual Editor also requires you to
install the following plugins:
- at least Eclipse Visual Editor 1.2.0
- Eclipse EMF 2.2.0
- Eclipse GEF 3.2.0
- Click Next.
- Select ULC Visual Editor.
- Click Accept to accept the license agreement.
- Click Finish.
- The Add ULC Visual Editor License dialog box displays. Copy and paste your ULC Visual Editor license key into the space provided. Click OK.
- Click Install.
- Click Yes to restart Eclipse.
Note: You will need to restart Eclipse to complete the installation.