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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 – responding to the user


When the user clicks on the icon, nothing happens. That's because there is no registered listener on the TrayItem itself. There are two listeners that can be registered; a SelectionListener, called when the icon is clicked, and a MenuDetectListener, which can respond to a context-sensitive menu. The former will be used to present a clock in its own window, which in SWT terms is called a Shell.

  1. Open the Activator class.

  2. Go to the lambda inside the asyncExec in the Activator class's start method.

  3. After the creation of the TrayItem, call addSelectionListener with a new anonymous inner subclass of SelectionListener. In the widgetSelected method, a new Shell should be created with a ClockView and then shown:

    trayItem.addSelectionListener(new SelectionAdapter() {
      public void widgetSelected(SelectionEvent e) {
        Shell shell = new Shell(display);
        shell.setLayout(new FillLayout());
        new ClockWidget(shell, SWT.NONE, new RGB(255, 0, 255));
        shell.pack...
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