How To Make ToolWindow?

Wondering if anyone can point me to a good resource or give me tips on creating a ToolWindow.

I want a tool window similar to the Run tool window. I want to have icon buttons, have a console window just like the one that is there, with highlighting etc. Or one like the messages console window where build errors are highlighted?

Thanks
Mike

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Hi Mike,

start with looking at ToolWindowManager. It is quite good documented.
The component to display in your new tool window you have to implement yourself.

Regards,
Dan

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What I would like to do is reuse some of the existing ones if I can. I notice most window like the ant, run have a toolbar, is there a standard way of doing this? Also the run or messages window, I would like to reuse their component so that I don't have to write the highlighting stuff. My window is to display the output of an ant like build, so something like the ant output window? Can I reuse these components? Or extend them some how?

Thanks
Mike

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Hello Mike,

What I would like to do is reuse some of the existing ones if I can.
I notice most window like the ant, run have a toolbar, is there a
standard way of doing this? Also the run or messages window, I would
like to reuse their component so that I don't have to write the
highlighting stuff. My window is to display the output of an ant like
build, so something like the ant output window? Can I reuse these
components? Or extend them some how?


The toolbar can be created using ActionManager.createActionToolbar(). The
console window can be created using TextConsoleBuilderFactory.getInstance().createBuilder(project).getConsole().

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