Creating views

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

Creating a new view

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

• Create a windows form user control to define the content of the view
• Create a controller class for the view, which must implement the AbstractViewController class
• Decorate the controller class with the ViewAttribute attribute to provide metadata informations regarding the view

Integrating view sample

Creating a new view which allows view parts

In order to create a new view which allows viewparts, a third-party developer will require the following steps:

• Create a controller class for the view, which must implement the AbstractViewController class
• Decorate the controller class with the ViewAttribute attribute to provide metadata informations regarding the view
• Set the boolean property AllowViewParts to true

For more detailed information on how to create a view which contains viewparts, see the topic Integrating viewparts.