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RED - Robot Editor v0.7.0

Introduction

RED Robot Editor is Eclipse based editor for RobotFramework test cases.
Release contains Eclipse feature of RED Robot Editor to be installed into Eclipse.

Requirements

How to install

Installation instructions

Updates

  • Testcases and Keywords table editors fully funcitonal - now you can edit test suites in RIDE style as well.
  • Preferences - what to do after pressing Enter in cell during edit - check section Robot Framework\Editor
  • Documentation View - new view to show current Keyword documentation or libdoc of selected keyword. View can be opened from Window -> Show View -> Other -> Robot -> Documentation View
  • Fixes for #30 #31 #32 #33 #34 #38
  • Fixes for processing variable files with Python3
  • Added to help how to debug with PyDev
  • Many more small but important changes
  • Check changelog.txt for details

What's in the package

  • Robot Perspective & Robot nature (Project,files and other file artefacts)
  • Text Source editor with syntax coloring, code assistance and real-time validation
  • Table editors synced with Source
  • Debug Perspective for test case debugging with breakpoints, stepping, variable watch
  • Remote debug
  • Support for dictionaries & lists
  • Eclipse help
  • File support: .robot, .txt, .tsv

Known issues

  • Under Ubuntu/Xubuntu it was discovered that NullPointerException is shown when opening file from Project Explorer and clicking on file structure instead of file name. As a workaround open file by clicking on filename.
  • Cannot delete library by right click of mouse in red.xml under Ubuntu/Mint. Use Delete key as workaround
  • GTK3 seems to mess up with Eclipse under Linux. Force usage of GTK2 by executing command in terminal: export SWT_GTK3=0
  • Eclipse does not have UTF-8 support in editors by default. Check Preferences and RED help to get how to change it.

Short term plans

  • Usability improvments

Notes

By default, Eclipse is shipped with limited heap size which impacts performance while working with bigger projects. It is recommended to increase Xmx and Xmx parameters to higher values. Memory allocation can be done via startup arguments or by editing eclipse.ini in Eclipse folder.
We recommend to set following lines to eclipse.ini :

-vmargs
-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m

For details visit Eclipse Wiki: https://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_increase_the_heap_size_available_to_Eclipse%3F

Feedback

We would appreciate any feedback about RED - Robot Editor, especially in every day functions like editors usability, false positive validation errors, problem with source parsing& coloring, performance etc. We are open for improvements and new functionalities. Fell free to create issue in GitHub issue tracker.

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