Topcoder Plugins
Welcome to the TopCoder
plugin exchange forum. If you are not familiar with
www.topcoder.com
, then you should consider
visiting that page to get an idea how the web site and the contest applet
work.
Plugins can come in a variety of
forms. The basic requirement is that the plugin either implement the
topcoder interface, described at the
howto
link
at
www.topcoder.com
, or the interface of another
plugin that interfaces with topcoder. They can interact with a standard
editor, or they can be editors themselves. In the latter case, the editor
plugin creates a java JPanel that displays the code and hands it to the contest
applet.
Currently the only publicly
available topcoder editor is PopsEdit, which is not available here because it is
not open source. You can find the free download here:
Jar
,
documentation
,
and
release
notes
. The other option for editing within
the contest applet is to use the applet itself. Here is TopCoder's
description of the command syntax.
To use your own editor,
currently the only option is Pops' FileEdit. FileEdit works by performing
all actions on a file in the user's file system, which the editor finds and
uses. Program flow is bascially as follows:
If you use either
PopsEdit or FileEdit, you can use a parsing editor with it. CodeProcessor
provides the engine for processing, while ProblemParser, TZTester, and
RonProc are the extentions.
Currently the following
projects are hosted here.
RonProc is hosted at another SourceForge location .