Today I learned, that IntelliJ has support for Wayland Compositor since version 2024.2, so seems like im rather late to the game. Simply go to Help > Edit custom VM options and add -Dawt.toolkit.name=WLToolkit. For me it so far works nicely. And the issue of some overlay windows (like object inspector) not being resizable in Sway … are just gone. Yay 🥳
Recently I learned, that it’s possible to script IntelliJ. I picked up on it while Writing an IntelliJ Plugin for my Coverage Tracker project, aka “Undercovered”. So there is the IDE scripting console, which comes out-of-the-box. You just open the Action panel and search for IDE Scripting Console, next a tiny popup menu should show, asking for whether it should be Groovy or Kotlin (beta). Right away you can enter some code and evaluate it by pressing Control + Return....
In a way, this is the last part of my journey creating a Java (Line) Coverage Analyzer. This article concentrates on creating an IntelliJ plugin, that adapts it to show the results collected by the analyzer created in Let’s create a Coverage Analyzer, Part 4. To get started, check out JetBrains’ Developing a Plugin article. With recent IntelliJ versions you need to install the Plugin DevKit first, then create a new Project and select the IDE Plugin Generator....