Eclipse Plug-in Development: Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Dr Alex Blewitt

• Verlag: Packt Publishing
• Jahr: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781785285011
• Auflage: 2
• Thema: Informatik
• Thema: Programmierung

Develop skills to build powerful plug-ins with Eclipse IDE through examplesAbout This Book• Create useful plug-ins to make Eclipse work for you• Learn how to migrate Eclipse 3.x plug-ins to Eclipse 4.x• From automation to testing, find out how to get your IDE performing at an impressive standardWho This Book Is ForThis book is for Java developers familiar with Eclipse who need more from the IDE. This book will sharpen your confidence and make you a more productive developer with a tool that supports rather than limits you.What You Will Learn• Create plug-ins for Eclipse 4.x• Test plug-ins automatically with JUnit• Display tree and table information in views• Upgrade Eclipse 3.x plug-ins to Eclipse 4.x• Find out how to build user interfaces from SWT and JFace• Run tasks in the background and update the user interface asynchronously• Automate builds of plug-ins and features• Automate user interface tests with SWTBotIn DetailEclipse 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.Style and approachPacked with plenty of examples so you're never stuck, or never left simply reading instructions, this book encourages you to get started immediately. This book is for developers who want to develop, not just learn.

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

www.PacktPub.com

eBooks, discount offers, and more

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...