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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 – interrogating views


Having been able to acquire a reference to the view, the next step is to deal with specific user interface components. For standard controls such as Button and Text, the bot provides standard methods to acquire. To get hold of other components, the widget hierarchy will have to be interrogated directly.

  1. In the testTimeZoneView method, get the Widget from the returned SWTBotView.

  2. Create a Matcher using the WidgetMatcherFactory to find widgetsOfType(CTabItem.class).

  3. Use the bot.widgets method to search for a list of CTabItem instances in the view's widget.

  4. Ensure that the number of elements returned is equal to the number of time zone regions.

  5. The code looks like:

    SWTBotView timeZoneView = bot.viewByTitle("Time Zone View");
    assertNotNull(timeZoneView);
    Widget widget = timeZoneView.getWidget();
    org.hamcrest.Matcher<CTabItem> matcher =
      WidgetMatcherFactory.widgetOfType(CTabItem.class);
    final java.util.List<? extends CTabItem> ctabs = 
      bot.widgets...
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