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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 – contributing commands to pop-up menus


It's useful to be able to add contributions to pop-up menus so that they can be used by different places. Fortunately this can be done fairly easily with the menuContribution fragment and a combination of enablement tests. However, to implement this in E4, the view must be moved into the fragment.e4xmi file in order to attach a PopupMenu.

  1. Add the org.eclipse.ui.services package as a dependency to the plugin.xml in the Dependencies tab, if it's not already added.

  2. Open the TimeZoneTableView class and add the following to the end of the createPartControl method:

    private void createPartControl(Composite parent, EMenuService menuService) {
      menuService.registerContextMenu(tableViewer.getControl(), "com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui.popup");
      tableViewer.addSelectionChangedListener(event -> {
        // forward selection
        Object selection = ((IStructuredSelection) event.getSelection()).getFirstElement();
        if (selection != null && selectionService...