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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By : Alex Blewitt
Book Image

Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

By: Alex Blewitt

Overview of this book

Eclipse is used by everyone from indie devs to NASA engineers. Its popularity is underpinned by its impressive plug-in ecosystem, which allows it to be extended to meet the needs of whoever is using it. This book shows you how to take full advantage of the Eclipse IDE by building your own useful plug-ins from start to finish. Taking you through the complete process of plug-in development, from packaging to automated testing and deployment, this book is a direct route to quicker, cleaner Java development. It may be for beginners, but we're confident that you'll develop new skills quickly. Pretty soon you'll feel like an expert, in complete control of your IDE. Don't let Eclipse define you - extend it with the plug-ins you need today for smarter, happier, and more effective development.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – interrogating views


Having been able to acquire a reference to the view, the next step is to deal with specific user interface components. For standard controls such as Button and Text, the bot provides standard methods to acquire. To get hold of other components, the widget hierarchy will have to be interrogated directly.

  1. In the testTimeZoneView method, get the Widget from the returned SWTBotView.

  2. Create a Matcher using the WidgetMatcherFactory to find widgetsOfType(CTabItem.class).

  3. Use the bot.widgets method to search for a list of CTabItem instances in the view's widget.

  4. Ensure that the number of elements returned is equal to the number of time zone regions.

  5. The code looks like:

    SWTBotView timeZoneView = bot.viewByTitle("Time Zone View");
    assertNotNull(timeZoneView);
    Widget widget = timeZoneView.getWidget();
    org.hamcrest.Matcher<CTabItem> matcher =
      WidgetMatcherFactory.widgetOfType(CTabItem.class);
    final java.util.List<? extends CTabItem> ctabs = 
      bot.widgets...