Plain AST Editor: Visualization

In the plain AST editor each node appears as a rectangle. Child nodes are indented. A node can have a

Name

appears in bold letters. Exported nodes appear in green non-exported ones in black.

Reference

appears after the name in violet with an arrow between the name and the reference.

Value

appears after the reference in orange. The type of the value is specified in curly brackets.

Note, that the editor automatically wraps the text inside the rectangle if necessary:

Swing	Eclipse

If the mouse cursor is above a reference its AST name appears in a tooltip:

Invalid nodes (i.e. nodes with didn't pass validation) appear with a red background. A tooltip shows the reason of the failure:

Swing	Eclipse

In the Eclipse version invalid nodes also appear as small red rectangles on the overview bar on the right hand side.