Custom tool windows that show a web page

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Hi,

I'm enjoying RubyMine very much (when it doesn't start crawling and begs for a restart), and I have one suggestion I hope you consider.

It would be great if we could add custom tool windows that could be opened with a shortcut, and showed a specific web page (not necessarily http://, could be file://). This way we could have documentation sites, time trackers, issue trackers, etc., at our fingertips. If you do this, consider using Chrome as the backed, it rocks.

Would something like this be possible by using your Ruby API? Where's the documentation?

And if you're feeling generous, you could consider something like this http://code.google.com/p/cubeon/ for v3, or v4, I don't mind

Thanks!

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Roman Chernyatchik
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It would be great if we could add custom tool windows that could be opened with a shortcut, and showed a specific web page (not necessarily http://, could be file://). This way we could have documentation sites, time trackers, issue trackers, etc., at our fingertips. If you do this, consider using Chrome as the backed, it rocks.

We had such web preview in RubyMine 1.5 EAPs but we've dropped it because it wasn't really convenient and useful. Our web preview used mozilla backend which also was buggy.

Would something like this be possible by using your Ruby API? Where's the documentation?

Our Ruby/JRuby API is for improving code insight features and simple useful editor actions (e.g. convert do..end to {} or insert <%= .. %> or  toggle camel/underscored case). See
http://www.jetbrains.net/devnet/docs/DOC-1161

Also RM provides Java API similar to IDEA one but it isn't documented yet and isn't ready to be published.  

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