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

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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: choosing from a list


Although free text may be appropriate for some types of preference, choosing from a set of values may be more appropriate for other types. A ComboFieldEditor instance can be used to present the user with a selection of time zones, from which the user can set their favorite ZoneId. The combo drop-down is built from an array of pairs of strings; the first string in each pair is the display label, while the second value in each pair is the string identifier that will be persisted in the preferences store.

  1. In the ClockPreferencePage method createFieldEditors, add the following code to populate a ComboFieldEditor with the list of ZoneId elements:

    protected void createFieldEditors() {// ...
      String[][] data = ZoneId.getAvailableZoneIds() //
       .stream().sorted().map(s -> new String[] { s, s }) //
       .collect(Collectors.toList()).toArray(new String[][] {});addField(new ComboFieldEditor("favorite","Favorite time zone", data, getFieldEditorParent()));}
  2. Run the...

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