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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 input


To show the effect of changing the TimeZone, it is necessary to add an hour hand to the clock. When the TimeZone is changed in the drop-down, the hour hand will be updated.

  1. Add a zone field to the ClockWidget along with a setter:

    private ZoneId zone = ZoneId.systemDefault();
    public void setZone(ZoneId zone) {
      this.zone = zone;
    }
  2. Getters and setters can be generated automatically. Once the field is added, navigate to Source | Generate Getters and Setters. It can be used to generate all missing getters and/or setters; in addition, a single getter/setter can be generated by typing set in the class body, followed by Ctrl + Space (Cmd + Space on macOS).

  3. Add an hour hand in the drawClock method using the following:

    e.gc.setBackground(e.display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_BLACK));
    ZonedDateTime now = ZonedDateTime.now(zone);
    int hours = now.getHour();
    arc = (3 - hours) * 30 % 360;
    e.gc.fillArc(e.x, e.y, e.width-1, e.height-1, arc - 5, 10);
  4. To update the clock when...

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