Infinit.e Widget and Plugin Use

This space defines how to use the Eclipse plugin to easily develop widgets that are usable in the Infinit.e tool.

Tools needed: Eclipse IDE, with integrated Flash Builder with Flex SDK 4.5.x

In theory Flex SDK 4.6 is compatible, though will require a compiler flag to be set (this is unconfirmed by us)

IMPORTANT: Ignore the widget and flex lib libraries inside the above zip, there are out-of-date. Instead use these:
- Flex Lib
- Latest infinit.e.widget.library

Infinit.e Eclipse Plugin

1. Download the IWD:infinit.e plugin shown in the link above.
2. Install the plugin by dropping the file infinit.e.adobe.eclipse.infiniteModule.plugin_x.x.x.x.jar into your eclipse plugin folder e.g. for windows users: C:\eclipse\plugins
3. Restart or open eclipse, to test plugin is working right click on a project > click New > Other and then under the wizard list there should be Infinite Module under the Flash Builder folder (also Infinite Module has its own folder, both do the same action)

Infinit.e Widget Library

1. Download the IWD:infinit.e widget library shown in the link above. (Already complete if you did the step for the eclipse plugin)
2. Create a Flex project in your eclipse workspace (or you can use an existing flex project) Go to File > New > Project... Select Flex Project under the Flash Builder folder, hit next, give the project a name and select Finish

3. Drag the infinit.e.widget.library.swc file and the flexlib.swc file from the InfinitePluginAndLibrary.zip file and drop them onto the libs folder in your new project

4. Eclipse should have automatically added the swc library to the build path as you can see in the Referenced Libraries

Creating a Widget

1. Right click on the src folder of your Flex Project and select New > Other choose Infinite Module from the Flash Builder folder
2. Give your widget a name and select finish. (If the wizard does not pick up the src folder automatically, select Browse and navigate to your projects src folder e.g. /projectname/src)

3. The wizard should automatically add 2 files to your project a sandbox to run your new widget in named InfiniteTestApplication.mxml and your widget which you named in the previous step (e.g. sampleWidget.mxml)
4. At this point you can run the example by right right clicking the InfiniteTestApplication.mxml selecting Run As > Web Application

5. Add your widgets logic into the sampleWidget.mxml file (or whatever you named your widget) and run sample queries by logging in and then searching on a term.

Alternative Method

As an alternative you can import IWD:this pre-made project directly into Eclipse. To do so, in eclipse go to File > Import, under General choose Existing Projects into Workspace, Click the radio button for Select archive file, then click browse and navigate to the zip folder you just downloaded (widgetSampleProject.zip) and click Finish. This should open a flex project named widgetSampleProject into your workspace with pre-made files ready to run.