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1. Help -> Help Sets -> Open APIs Support 2. Click on (not expand) the folder "Module Tutorials" 3. Follow the instructions Unless one has a good knowledge of the IDE and where each of the parts are, it is quite troublesome to get started. Each sentence of the second paragraph states a necessary high-level step in the process of creating an Open API module, but it does not describe how to do that step (i.e. which menu items to select, which dialog to fill out, where the "JAR" is that is to be clicked, etc...) And before someone says "who would develop a plugin without knowing the IDE intimately?". I am porting a plugin I wrote for another IDE (that I also don't know well). I did not have this much trouble getting started with their Open Tools API... ;-)
Created attachment 4971 [details] Suggested updated docs for this issue.
I've just posted a file containing a suggested replacement/addition to the "unclear" docs. The steps within are from a non-hard-core NB user. The steps are clear for "newbies", but may have some inefficiencies and/or bad practices. Feel free to make mods as necessary (I'd be happy to make further changes if given specific feedback).
Thanks for the report. Also see issue #18707, these edits should be applied together I guess.
Created attachment 4993 [details] A step-by-step description of creating a Hello World module using the IDE Module template
I just uploaded a step-by-step tutorial for creation of a Hello World! IDE module. The instructions (step #3 specifically) have three questions set out in square brackets. These are questions about particular wording of the Wizard dialogs. Might be worth turning those questions into bugs/enhancement requests. Hope this serves some use.
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
No time for it, alas.
Obsolete.