Installation

SmartGUI consists of a number of Eclipse plugins. These plugins require a specific set of Eclipse projects. Both, plugins and projects, are part of the SmartGUI standard distribution.

Prerequisites

  • Installed and running Eclipse Modeling Tools. This modeling package contains a collection of Eclipse Modeling Project components, including EMF, GMF, MDT XSD/OCL/UML2, M2M, M2T, and EMFT elements.

To install the SmartGUI plugins

  • Open Window->Preferences->Install/Update->Available Software Sites
  • Add SmartGUI 0.3 update site: http://www.bm1software.com/updates/0.3/
  • Open Help->Install New Software. Select SmartGUI update site. When the list of existing features is populated - select 'SmartGUI' feature:
  • Proceed with the installation by pressing 'Next', then press 'Next' again in the next screen.
  • Accept the EULA when asked.
  • Finish the installation. Restart Eclipse.

To install the SmartGUI projects

  • Download the zip file containing the projects from http://www.bm1software.com/updates/0.3/sources.zip.
  • Unzip the file sources.zip.
  • Inside Eclipse, File->Import->General|Existing Projects into Workspace; then press 'Next'.
  • Browse to select the 'root directory', which is the directory resulting from unzipping sources.zip; then press 'OK'.
  • Select all the projects; check 'Copy projects into workspace'; then press 'Finish'.