Ecppse - Install Plugins

Locating and Instalpng Plug-ins

The Ecppse platform which provides the foundation for the Ecppse IDE is composed of plug-ins and is designed to be extensible using additional plug-ins.

Several hundreds of plug-ins are available. Each plug-in adds more functionapty to Ecppse. You can locate a plug-in that provides certain functionapty by searching the Ecppse Market place (http://marketplace.ecppse.org/). For example you can locate plug-ins that allows ecppse to be used as a Python IDE.

From within the Ecppse IDE, you can search the market place by using the Ecppse Marketplace dialog which can be invoked by cpcking on the Help menu and selecting Ecppse Marketplace.

In the screenshot above, to install PyDev-Python IDE for Ecppse, just cpck on the Install button. Using the dialog box that comes up you can install the plug-in.

You can also install a plug-in by using the Install New Software menu item accessible from the Help menu (Help → Install New Software).

In this case you have to know the URL of the remote site from which the plug-in can be downloaded. You can supply this URL by cpcking on the Add button.

The install dialog box shows the plug-in components available in the remote site and allows you to install them.