[antlr-interest] An editor GUI for Grammar

Pankaj Agarwal pa_inbox at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 16 15:32:35 PDT 2006


Hi Martn,
Thanks for your response... Thats exactly I am looking for ... an editor
infrastructure...because this should be used by an end user.
and I would hate to develop a editor hardcoding each rule ...in the GUI.

-TIA

On 8/16/06, Martin Probst <mail at martin-probst.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I think someone once worked on providing something that would take
> a .g file and produce at least the major parts of an Eclipse editor
> component. No idea if there was any progress or something deliverable.
>
> But I think in most cases validation of input will simply be running
> it through the parser. The work I mentioned was mostly targeted at
> syntax highlighting and editor infrastructure like error reporting,
> iirc.
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
> Am 16.08.2006 um 19:38 schrieb Pankaj Agarwal:
>
> > Hi ,
> > No, I am looking for a editor which can work my grammar rules in .g
> > file and provide validations for inputs to parser rather than
> > validating ANTLR grammar itself....? does that make sense ?
> > -TIA
> >
> > On 8/16/06, Dieter Frej <dieter_frej at gmx.net> wrote: are you
> > looking for something like antlrworks?
> >
> > - Didi
> >
> >
> >
> > Pankaj Agarwal wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > First accept my Congrats...for this excellent tool.
> > > I am new to ANTLR , however I find it ideal for my requirement of
> > > developing a Boolean query engine , I got enough idea on lexers and
> > > parsers, however this engine needs to be end to end...i.e.
> > > the end users should be able to specify these queries in a
> > GUI ...I was
> > > wondering whether there are some third party /open source or non
> > open
> > > source tools available which can help me generate a GUI from the
> > gramamr
> > > itself...since Grammar already has all the information for LHS ,
> > OP and
> > > RHS ..does this makes sense ?
> > >
> > > Any pointers are appreciated.
> > >
> > > -TIA
> >
> >
>
>
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