Creating your first plug-in
by Dr. Alex Blewitt
Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide
- Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide
- Table of Contents
- Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide
- Credits
- About the Author
- Acknowledgement
- About the Reviewers
- www.PacktPub.com
- Preface
- 1. Creating Your First Plug-in
- Getting started
- Time for action – setting up the Eclipse SDK environment
- Creating your first plug-in
- Time for action – creating a plug-in
- Running plug-ins
- Time for action – launching Eclipse from within Eclipse
- Debugging a plug-in
- Time for action – debugging a plug-in
- Time for action – updating code in debugger
- Debugging with step filters
- Time for action – setting up step filtering
- Using different breakpoint types
- Time for action – breaking at method entry and exit
- Using conditional breakpoints
- Time for action – setting a conditional breakpoint
- Using exceptional breakpoints
- Time for action – catching exceptions
- Time for action – using watch variables and expressions
- Summary
- 2. Creating Views with SWT
- Creating views and widgets
- Time for action – creating a view
- Time for action – drawing a custom view
- Time for action – drawing a second hand
- Time for action – animating the second hand
- Time for action – running on the UI thread
- Time for action – creating a reusable widget
- Time for action – using layouts
- Managing resources
- Time for action – getting colorful
- Time for action – finding the leak
- Time for action – plugging the leak
- Interacting with the user
- Time for action – getting in focus
- Time for action – responding to input
- Using other SWT widgets
- Time for action – adding items to the tray
- Time for action – responding to the user
- Time for action – modal and other effects
- Time for action – groups and tab folders
- Summary
- 3. Creating JFace Viewers
- Why JFace?
- Creating TreeViewers
- Time for action – creating a TreeViewer
- Time for action – using Images in JFace
- Time for action – styling label providers
- Sorting and filtering
- Time for action – sorting items in a viewer
- Time for action – filtering items in a viewer
- Interaction and properties
- Time for action – adding a double-click listener
- Time for action – showing properties
- Tabular data
- Time for action – viewing time zones in tables
- Time for action – syncing selection
- Summary
- 4. Interacting with the User
- Creating actions, commands, and handlers
- Time for action – adding context menus
- Time for action – creating commands and handlers
- Time for action – binding commands to keys
- Time for action – changing contexts
- Time for action – enabling and disabling the menu's items
- Time for action – reusing expressions
- Time for action – contributing commands to pop-up menus
- Jobs and progress
- Time for action – running operations in the background
- Time for action – reporting progress
- Time for action – dealing with cancellation
- Time for action – using subtasks and subprogress monitors
- Time for action – using null progress monitors and submonitors
- Time for action – setting job properties
- Reporting errors
- Time for action – showing errors
- Summary
- 5. Storing Preferences and Settings
- Storing preferences
- Time for action – persisting a value
- Time for action – creating a preference page
- Time for action – creating warning and error messages
- Time for action – choosing from a list
- Time for action – using a grid
- Time for action – placing the preferences page
- Time for action – using other field editors
- Time for action – adding keywords
- Time for action: using IEclipsePreferences
- Using IMemento and DialogSettings
- Time for action – adding a memento for the Time Zone View
- Time for action – using DialogSettings
- Summary
- 6. Working with Resources
- Using the workspace and resources
- Time for action – creating an editor
- Time for action – writing the markup parser
- Time for action – building the builder
- Time for action – iterating through resources
- Time for action – creating resources
- Time for action – implementing incremental builds
- Time for action – handling deletion
- Using natures
- Time for action – creating a nature
- Using markers
- Time for action – error markers if the file is empty
- Time for action – registering a marker type
- Summary
- 7. Understanding the Eclipse 4 Model
- Working with the Eclipse 4 model
- Time for action – installing E4 tooling
- Time for action – creating an E4 application
- Time for action – creating a part
- Time for action – styling the UI with CSS
- Using services and contexts
- Time for action – adding logging
- Time for action – getting the window
- Time for action – obtaining the selection
- Time for action – dealing with events
- Time for action – calculating values on demand
- Time for action – using preferences
- Time for action – interacting with the UI
- Using Commands, Handlers, and MenuItems
- Time for action – wiring a menu to a command with a handler
- Time for action – passing command parameters
- Time for action – creating a direct menu and keybindings
- Time for action – creating a pop-up menu and a view menu
- Creating custom injectable classes
- Time for action – creating a simple service
- Time for action – injecting subtypes
- Summary
- 8. Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products
- Grouping plug-ins with features
- Time for action – creating a feature
- Time for action – exporting a feature
- Time for action – installing a feature
- Time for action – categorizing the update site
- Time for action – depending on other features
- Time for action – branding features
- Building applications and products
- Time for action – creating a headless application
- Time for action – creating a product
- Summary
- 9. Automated Testing of Plug-ins
- Using JUnit for automated testing
- Time for action – writing a simple JUnit test case
- Time for action – writing a plug-in test
- Using SWTBot for user interface testing
- Time for action – writing an SWTBot test
- Time for action – working with menus
- Working with SWTBot
- Time for action – hiding the welcome screen
- Time for action – avoiding SWTBot runtime errors
- Working with views
- Time for action – showing views
- Time for action – interrogating views
- Interacting with the UI
- Time for action – getting values from the UI
- Time for action – waiting for a condition
- Summary
- 10. Automated Builds with Tycho
- Using Maven to build Eclipse plug-ins with Tycho
- Time for action – installing Maven
- Time for action – building with Tycho
- Building features and update sites with Tycho
- Time for action – creating a parent project
- Time for action – building a feature
- Time for action – building an update site
- Time for action – building a product
- Testing and releasing
- Time for action – running automated tests
- Time for action – changing the version numbers
- Signing update sites
- Time for action – creating a self-signed certificate
- Time for action – signing the plug-ins
- Time for action – serving an update site
- Summary
- A. Pop Quiz Answers
- Chapter 1, Creating Your First Plug-in
- Chapter 2, Creating Views with SWT
- Chapter 3, Creating JFace Viewers
- Chapter 4, Interacting with the User
- Chapter 5, Storing Preferences and Settings
- Chapter 6, Working with Resources
- Chapter 7, Understanding the Eclipse 4 Model
- Chapter 8, Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products
- Chapter 9, Automated Testing of Plug-ins
- Chapter 10, Automated Builds with Tycho
- Index
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