The tutorial shows you the steps used to create a design pattern.
You can watch the pattern being created, modified, tested, and deployed as
a plug-in. If you are not familiar with patterns, you can learn about applying
patterns by completing the related pattern cheat sheets or the Apply a pattern
tutorial. You can access cheat sheets and the Tutorials Gallery from the Help
menu.
Learning objectives
The objective of this
tutorial is to learn how to create patterns. In this tutorial, you will learn
the following:
- How to select the perspectives and views needed to create, test, and apply
a pattern.
- How to set up the projects to create and test the pattern.
- How to use the Pattern Authoring view to create the basic pattern structure.
- How to establish dependencies between pattern parameters.
- How to modify the update and expand type of hot-spots provided for the
pattern author.
- How to use the run-time instantiation to debug the pattern.
Time required
30 minutes