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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
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Table of Contents
Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Why subscribe?
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
Sections
Time for action – heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz – heading
Have a go hero – heading
Conventions
Reader feedback
Customer support
Downloading the example code
Downloading the color images of this book
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Creating Your First Plug-in
Getting started
Time for action – setting up the Eclipse environment
What just happened?
Creating your first plug-in
Time for action – creating a plug-in
What just happened?
Pop quiz – Eclipse workspaces and plug-ins
Running plug-ins
Time for action – launching Eclipse from within Eclipse
What just happened?
Pop quiz: launching Eclipse
Have a go hero – modifying the plug-in
Debugging a plug-in
Time for action – debugging a plug-in
What just happened?
Time for action – updating code in the debugger
What just happened?
Debugging with step filters
Time for action – setting up step filtering
What just happened?
Using different breakpoint types
Time for action – breaking at method entry and exit
What just happened?
Using conditional breakpoints
Time for action – setting a conditional breakpoint
What just happened?
Using exceptional breakpoints
Time for action – catching exceptions
What just happened?
Time for action – inspecting and watching variables
What just happened?
Pop quiz: debugging
Have a go hero – working with breakpoints
Summary
2. Creating Views with SWT
Creating views and widgets
Time for action – creating a view
What just happened?
Manifest.mf
plugin.xml
Time for action – drawing a custom view
What just happened?
Time for action – drawing a seconds hand
What just happened?
Time for action – animating the second hand
What just happened?
Time for action – running on the UI thread
What just happened?
Time for action – creating a reusable widget
What just happened?
Time for action – using layouts
What just happened?
Pop quiz: understanding views
Have a go hero – drawing hour and minute hands
Managing resources
Time for action – getting colorful
What just happened?
Time for action – finding the leak
What just happened?
Time for action – plugging the leak
What just happened?
Pop quiz – understanding resources
Have a go hero
Interacting with the user
Time for action – getting in focus
What just happened?
Time for action – responding to input
What just happened?
Pop quiz: understanding widgets
Have a go hero – updating the clock widget
Using other SWT widgets
Time for action – adding items to the tray
What just happened?
Time for action – responding to the user
What just happened?
Time for action – modal and other effects
What just happened?
Time for action – groups and tab folders
What just happened?
Pop quiz: using SWT
Have a go hero: enhancing the time zones
Summary
3. Creating JFace Viewers
Why JFace?
Creating TreeViewers
Time for action – creating a tree viewer
What just happened?
Time for action – using Images in JFace
What just happened?
Time for action – styling label providers
What just happened?
Pop quiz – understanding JFace
Have a go hero – adding images for regions
Sorting and filtering
Time for action – sorting items in a viewer
What just happened?
Time for action – filtering items in a viewer
What just happened?
Pop quiz – understanding sorting and filters
Have a go hero – expanding and filtering
Interaction
Time for action – adding a double-click listener
What just happened?
Pop quiz – understanding interaction
Tabular data
Time for action – viewing time zones in tables
What just happened?
Pop quiz: understanding tables
Selection
Time for action – propagating selection
What just happened?
Time for action – responding to selection changes
What just happened?
Have a go hero – adding selection support to the table view
Pop quiz – understanding selection
Summary
4. Interacting with the User
Creating menus, commands, and handlers
Time for action – installing the E4 tools
What just happened?
Time for action – creating commands and handlers
What just happened?
Time for action – binding commands to keys
What just happened?
Time for action – changing contexts
What just happened?
Time for action – enabling and disabling menus items
What just happened?
Time for action – contributing commands to pop-up menus
What just happened?
Have a go hero – using view menus and toolbars
Pop quiz – understanding menus
Jobs and progress
Time for action – running operations in the background
What just happened?
Have a go hero – using a UIJob
Time for action – reporting progress
What just happened?
Time for action – dealing with cancellation
What just happened?
Time for action – using subtasks and sub-progress monitors
What just happened?
Time for action – using null progress monitors and sub monitors
What just happened?
Time for action – setting job properties
What just happened?
Have a go hero – displaying in the taskbar
Pop quiz – understanding Jobs
Reporting errors
Time for action – showing errors
What just...
