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

You're reading from  Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783980697
Pages 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Alex Blewitt Alex Blewitt
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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
1. Creating Your First Plug-in 2. Creating Views with SWT 3. Creating JFace Viewers 4. Interacting with the User 5. Working with Preferences 6. Working with Resources 7. Creating Eclipse 4 Applications 8. Migrating to Eclipse 4.x 9. Styling Eclipse 4 Applications 10. Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products 11. Automated Testing of Plug-ins 12. Automated Builds with Tycho 13. Contributing to Eclipse Using OSGi Services to Dynamically Wire Applications Pop Quiz Answers 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...
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