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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 – styling label providers


The IStyledLabelProvider is used to style the representation of the tree viewer, as used by the Java outline viewer to display the return type of the method, and by the team's decorator when showing when changes have occurred.

  1. Add the IStyledLabelProvider interface to the TimeZoneLabelProvider class, and create the getStyledText method. If the selected element is a Map.Entry that contains a ZoneId, add the offset afterwards in brackets:

    public class TimeZoneLabelProvider extends LabelProvider
     implements IStyledLabelProvider {
      public StyledString getStyledText(Object element) {
        String text = getText(element);
        StyledString styledString = new StyledString(text);
        if (element instanceof ZoneId) {
          ZoneId zone = (ZoneId)element;
          ZoneOffset offset = ZonedDateTime.now(zone).getOffset();
          styledString.append(" (" + offset + ")",
           StyledString.DECORATIONS_STYLER);
        }
        return styledString;
      }
    }
  2. In order to use the styled...