The current selection can be obtained through the selection service with a listener, similar to Eclipse 3.x. However, the ISelectionService in Eclipse 3.x has been replaced with an almost identical ESelectionService in Eclipse 4.x (other than the minor lack of JavaDoc and change of package name, the only significant difference between the two is that there are no add/removePostSelection methods).
Create a class called
Rainbowin thecom.packtpub.e4.application.partspackage. Add aprivate static finalarray of strings with colors of the rainbow.Add a
createmethod, along with a@PostConstructannotation, that takes aCompositeparent. Inside, create aListViewerand set the input to the array of rainbow colors. The class will look like:public class Rainbow { private static final Object[] rainbow = { "Red", "Orange", "Yellow", "Green", "Blue", "Indigo", "Violet" }; @PostConstruct public void create(Composite parent) { ListViewer lv =...