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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
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781783980697
Pages 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Alex Blewitt Alex Blewitt
Profile icon Alex Blewitt

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 – getting the window


In an Eclipse 3.x application, the main window is typically accessed via a static accessor such as Display.getDisplay() or workbench.getWorkbenchWindows(). Both of these assume that there is a way of getting to this global list in the first place, often through tightly coupled code references. As well as OSGi services, E4 can also be used to inject references to GUI components. However, rather than accessing the GUI components directly, models are used instead. As a result, components in E4 tend to start with M (for Model)—such as MPart, MWindow, and MPerspective.

  1. To obtain the reference to the window, add a private field MWindow window to the Hello class, along with an @Inject annotation.

  2. Modify the create method so that the label of the text is taken from the window's title (label). The class will look like:

    import org.eclipse.e4.ui.model.application.ui.basic.MWindow;
    public class Hello {
      @Inject
      private MWindow window;
      @PostConstruct
      public void...
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