Prerequisites

• You will need to have an account on the CVS repository
• You will need to have installed Eclipse and GEF. Currently we are using Eclipse 3.0.2 and GEF 3.0.1. Both can be downloaded from http://www.eclipse.org

Checking out AcmeStudio

• Start Eclipse
• Switch to the Plugin Development perspective (Window>Open Perspective)
• Get code from the ABLE repository
  • Switch to the CVS Perspective
  • Create a new Repository Location by right-clicking in the CVS Repositories View and doing New>Repository Location.
  • ABLE cvs repository is :pserver:<user>@able.fluid.cs.cmu.edu:/cvs/able where <user> is your CVS username.
  • Check out "AcmeLib-Java" from CVS as a project named "AcmeLib". Do this by right-clicking on AcmeLib-Java and selecting Checkout as... from the context menu.
  • Check out "AcmeStudioPE" from CVS as a project named "AcmeStudio". Ditto for checking out.
  • Check out "AcmeStudioShapeExtension" and AcmeDiagramLegend. Do this by right-clicking on the projects and selecting Checkout from the context menu.

Running AcmeStudio from within Eclipse

• Select "Run->Debug...". Select "Runtime Workbench". Click "new".
• Change the name to "AcmeStudio". Under Program to Run, select Run as Product and select AcmeStudio.product as the product.
• Press "Debug"