Embed Text File Ressources in my Language.

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Hello MPS Team!

I rely on external plain text files for the textGen aspect of my language.
I would like to embed those ressources in the language tree or in a solution tree. Is it possible to do so in MPS?

I already did an attempt. I'v created a Concept with a string property and a corresponding swing JTextArea cell for the Editor Aspect. But my TextArea miss the Delete/Backward key events and some others. I guess those events are captured by the cell. Can I prevent this?

So is there any better solution to integrate those text files in my language/solutions?

Thanks a lot and best regards,

Etienne

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If you don't need an editor for the text files, you can always read it from a path. 
/* Behavior method */
public string getFileContents() { 
  try { 
    return FileUtils.readFileToString(new File(this.path)); 
  } catch (IOException exception) { 
    <no statements> 
  } 
  return ""; 
}
     


And in textgen:
foreach line in node.getFileContents().split("\n") { 
  append ${line} \n ; 
}


If you need an editor just could make a new Concept with
line : Line[0..n]

and use the generator.
You can make an indention to fill this concept with content (for example with a path property).
You could also split text that was pasted into the first line on \n and add for each splitted line a new concept of type Line.
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