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Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example : Beginner's Guide

By : Dr Alex Blewitt
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Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example : Beginner's Guide

By: Dr Alex Blewitt

Overview of this book

<p>As a highly extensible platform, Eclipse is used by everyone from independent software developers to NASA. Key to this is Eclipse’s plug-in ecosystem, which allows applications to be developed in a modular architecture and extended through its use of plug-ins and features.<br /><br />"Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide" takes the reader through the full journey of plug-in development, starting with an introduction to Eclipse plug-ins, continued through packaging and culminating in automated testing and deployment. The example code provides simple snippets which can be developed and extended to get you going quickly.</p> <p>This book covers basics of plug-in development, creating user interfaces with both SWT and JFace, and interacting with the user and execution of long-running tasks in the background.</p> <p>Example-based tasks such as creating and working with preferences and advanced tasks such as well as working with Eclipse’s files and resources. A specific chapter on the differences between Eclipse 3.x and Eclipse 4.x presents a detailed view of the changes needed by applications and plug-ins upgrading to the new model. Finally, the book concludes on how to package plug-ins into update sites, and build and test them automatically.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example Beginner's Guide
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – showing views


To show other views, the same mechanism is followed in the UI tests, as a user would do; by going to Window | Show View | Other.

  1. Create a new method, testTimeZoneView(), with a @Test annotation.

  2. From the bot, open the Other dialog by going to Window | Show View.

  3. Get the shell with the title Show View and activate it.

  4. Expand the Timekeeping node and select the Time Zone View node (the view created in Chapter 2, Creating Views with SWT).

  5. Click on the OK button to have the view shown.

  6. Use the bot.viewByTitle() method to acquire a reference to the view.

  7. Assert that the view is not null.

  8. The code looks like this:

    @Test
    public void testTimeZoneView() {
      bot.menu("Window").menu("Show View").menu("Other...").click();
      SWTBotShell shell = bot.shell("Show View");
      shell.activate();
      bot.tree().expandNode("Timekeeping").select("Time Zone View");
      bot.button("OK").click();
      SWTBotView timeZoneView = bot.viewByTitle("Time Zone View");
      assertNotNull(timeZoneView);
    }
  9. Run the...