Creating viewparts

SDL Trados Studio Integration API provides support for third-party developers to integrate UI viewparts inside the SDL Trados Studio desktop applications.

Creating viewparts for a custom view

In order to create view parts, a third-party developer will require the following steps:

  • Create a view which allows viewparts
  • Create one or more viewparts to define the main view content area
    • Create a windows form user control to define the content of the viewpart
    • Create a controller class that will define the main content area of the view which must implement the AbstractViewPartController
  • Decorate the controller class with the following attributes to provide metadata information regarding the viewparts:
  • Target the viewpart location by setting the LocationByType property with the view controller type.
  • Set the Dock property to Fill
  • Create the other viewparts as the content viewpart with the exception that the docking will not be of type Fill.

ntegrating viewpart sample

Creating viewparts for SDL Trados Studio views

In order to create viewparts and integrate them into the SDL Trados Studio views, the third-party developer will require the following steps:

  • Create a windows form user control to define the content of the viewpart
  • Create a viewpart controller class which must implement the AbstractViewPartController
  • Decorate the controller class with the following attributes to provide metadata information regarding the viewparts:
  • Target the viewpart location by setting the LocationByType property with the one of the view controllers defined:

Integrating viewpart sample