Preferences – customizing the runtime
An IDE is powerful if it provides a number of different utility windows to help the developer as they do their job. It becomes more powerful when they can customize it to their tastes, whether it is something as simple as colors or more targeted as filters. The preference store in Eclipse allows users to customize it in the way they want.
In this chapter, we will:
Read and write preferences from a
PreferenceStore
Create a
PreferencePage
usingFieldEditors