MDT - Modelica Development Tooling

The Modelica Development Tooling (MDT) Eclipse Plug-In integrates the OpenModelica compiler with Eclipse. MDT, together with the OpenModelica compiler, provides an environment for working with Modelica projects.

The following features are available: [Cool Screen Dumps]

Browsing support for Modelica projects, packages, and classes

Wizards for creating Modelica projects, packages, and classes

Syntax color highlighting

Syntax checking

Browsing of the Modelica Standard Library

Simple code completion

Code indentation correction

Paranthesis matching

MetaModelica browsing and assistance

OpenModelica command console

MDT was developed by two loony undergraduate students in their eternal quest for a degree. They have finished with their master thesis in April 2006 and, since then, the responsible with maintaining and enhancing MDT is Adrian Pop. The work on the plugin is a part of the larger project by PELAB which aims to create a complete Modelica and MetaModelica modeling, compilation and simulation environment.
MDT is used at PELAB for the development of the OpenModelica compiler.

News

Saturday, 01 November 2009
A short document on MDT installation HowTo.

Saturday, 04 October 2009
We have a new website for ModelicaML - A UML Profile for Modelica.

Saturday, 01 March 2008
Subversion repository moved to: https://openmodelica.ida.liu.se/svn/MDT/

Tuesday, 21 August 2007
Version 0.7.2 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the OpenModelica 1.4.3

this MDT does not work with OpenModelica less than 1.4.3

this MDT works with Eclipse 3.3.0 (Europa) and
DOES NOT WORK WITH Eclipse 3.2.0! Please install 0.7.1 for Eclipse 3.2.0

Friday, 13 July 2007
Version 0.7.1 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the OpenModelica 1.4.3

this MDT does not work with OpenModelica less than 1.4.3

a lot of improvements

debugging of MetaModelica now works quite well

hovering information for all identifiers

pre-loading of *.mo files from your project for faster code assistance

check the OpenModelica Users Guide for more information.

Monday, 13 November 2006
Version 0.6.9 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the OpenModelica 1.4.3 BETA

changes to OMC interface (this MDT does not work with OpenModelica less than 1.4.3)

bug fixes for normal Modelica package browsing.

implemented an OpenModelica console from where you can send commands to OMC.

to activate console follow Window->Show View->OpenModelica Console.

Thursday, 06 November 2006
Version 0.6.8.1 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the OpenModelica 1.4.3 BETA

changes to OMC interface (this MDT does not work with OpenModelica less than 1.4.3)

implemented better MetaModelica browsing

Saturday, 02 September 2006
Version 0.6.7 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the latest OpenModelica-1.4.2 Release
Changes:

changes to OMC interface (this MDT does not work with OpenModelica less than 1.4.2)

implemented MetaModelica browsing

Tuesday, 06 June 2006
Version 0.6.6 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the latest OpenModelica-1.4.0 Release
Changes:

fixed some errors that prevented MetaModelica build errors using OMDev builder to appear in the "Problems" list.

keyword "replaceable" corrected from wrong "replacable"

Monday, 22 May 2006
Version 0.6.5 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the latest OpenModelica-1.4.0 Release
Changes:

MetaModelica build errors using OMDev builder are now displayed in the "Problems" list.

Matching parentheses highlighting is now working correctly.

Saturday, 6 May 2006
Version 0.6.3 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the latest OpenModelica-1.4.0 Release
Changes:

Comment handling is better for all type of comments.

Sources can be indented by using the "Correct indentation" action.

Matching parentheses are highlighted.

Tuesday, 04 April 2006
Version 0.6.1 has been released. You can get the binary release from the update site.
For this release, you can use the old OpenModelica Compiler 1.3.2 BETA or a newer version.
Changes consist of bugfixes and some auto-indentation support, courtesy of Adrian Pop.

Wednesday, 15 March 2006
Version 0.6 is released. You can get it from the update site.
NB! For this release of MDT, you will need the OpenModelica Compiler 1.3.2 BETA.
Some changes include better code completion and class collapsing.

Friday, 17 February 2006
Version 0.5 of MDT is released. As always, it is available from the update site.
NB! You will need a specific nightly build of the OpenModelica Compiler (2006-02-17).
The biggest changes for this release are internal. Some visible changes
are improved error handling and that line and column number are shown at
the bottom of the Modelica editor.

Friday, 09 December 2005
Version 0.4 is released. It's available from the update site.
Some new features are code completion, browsing of system library source code and gradual updates of the projects tree view.

Using

To use MDT you need the OpenModelica Compiler and Eclipse 3 installed on your system.
You will also need Java 5.0 (aka 1.5) to use the plugin. We hope to support Java 1.4 soon.

Installing

The most convenient way to install MDT is by instructing Eclipse to fetch the plugin from the
update site which is located at http://www.ida.liu.se/~pelab/modelica/OpenModelica/MDT/.
If you are not sure how to accomplish this, just follow the instructions below.

Start Eclipse

Select Help -> Software Updates -> Find and Install... from the menu

Select Search for new features to install and click Next

Select New Remote Site...

Enter MDT as name and http://www.ida.liu.se/labs/pelab/modelica/OpenModelica/MDT/ as URL and click OK

Make sure MDT is selected and click Finish

In the updates dialog select the MDT feature and click Next

Read through the license agreement, select I accept... and click Next

Click Finish to install MDT

Another way to install MDT is by downloading a zip file, unzip it locally and point the Eclipse to the unpacked directory.

Download the latest zip file from here

The zip file will unpack to a local directory called "mdt"

Start Eclipse, then go Help->Software Updates...

Add the "mdt" directory as a local site (this is different from version to version) and then install the latest version of MDT from this local site.

Contributing

Modelica Development Tooling (MDT) is part of OpenModelica and is free software distributed under the OSMC-PL License.
This basically means you can do whatever you want with it non-commercially.
To use it comercially you need to be a member of the Open Source Modelica Consortium.
Please, help us improve! Download the tool and report bugs, or, even better, take the
source and implement something you always wanted, and contribute it to the MDT!

Source code

You can access the source code from the project's repository at https://openmodelica.ida.liu.se/svn/MDT/.
Anonymous read access is not enabled. You must use user: anonymous password: none.

Documentation

The primary source of information for the aspiring MDT developer is the MDT hacking manual.
The manual has information on code repository structure, how to build the package
and other important information. To checkout the manual and other documentation type:

svn co https://openmodelica.ida.liu.se/svn/MDT/docs
user: anonymous
pass: none

Contact

If you want to contact the current author and maintainer of MDT send an email to Adrian Pop [adrpo@ida.liu.se].
The MDT authors can be contacted via:

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Bug reports, patches, general feed back or anything else is welcome.

Updates

Latest update: 2009-11-01 04:05 by Adrian Pop