Eclipse 4diac Weekly #13

Update on what development happened across the Eclipse 4diac project in the week from November 29 to December 06, 2024.

Enhancements and Fixes in 4diac IDE

General Clean-Up

• Removed outdated execution runtime launcher classes.
• Removed obsolete extensions for old monitoring.
• Removed unnecessary throws declarations in the debug model.
• Cleaned messages file of systemmanagement.ui plugin.
• Fixed warnings and Sonar issues in systemmanagement.ui.
• Removed last remnants of the virtual group interface code.
• Cleaned up layout class and refined connection and FB layout configurations.

Mapping Enhancements

• Fixed parameter handling in MappingTargetCreator.
• Enabled automatic connection creation for mapped FBs during mapping.
• Prevented inout connections across subapp borders.
• Added functionality to create mapping target FBs if absent.
• Improved handling of typed subapp networks during mapping to avoid unnecessary loading.

Monitoring Improvements

• Enhanced variable view with a find action override for both monitoring and evaluator debugging.
• Resolved duplicate watches issue when monitoring multiple devices.

Validation and Debugging

• Restarted validation jobs canceled due to priority reads.
• Added a quick fix for missing export builders.
• Introduced configuration and validation for 4diac project nature, including Xtext support.

System Editor Revamp

• Moved application renaming and commenting features from the system explorer to the system editor.
• Reworked system editor to manage the application list exclusively (create, delete, reorder).
• Removed outdated actions, such as NewApplicationWizard, align actions from the toolbar, and rename functionality in the system explorer.

Type Library Updates

• Fixed issues with marker creation in the type library after resource updates.
• Addressed problems with the ST parser meta-model, re-adding necessary Xtext project configurations.

Miscellaneous Enhancements

• Improved error handling during type updates and refactorings:
  • Copied pin instance comments and propagated initial values for renamed pins.
  • Enhanced handling of attribute copying for error markers.
• Fixed port locations for negative graph coordinates.
• Tweaked layout configuration for FB blocks, reducing width requirements.

Enhancements and Fixes in 4diac FORTE

Memory and Resource Management

• Removed all delete[] usage in interface setup, improving memory handling.
• Fixed issues with string node IDs in the object struct helper for better reliability.

Many thanks to all contributors for their work and their feedback!

Cheers,
The Eclipse 4diac Team