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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783980697
Length 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Preface 1. Creating Your First Plug-in 2. Creating Views with SWT FREE CHAPTER 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 A. Using OSGi Services to Dynamically Wire Applications B. Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – debugging the platform

To debug the platform, make sure that at least one plug-in project is open and that it depends on the plug-ins that need to be debugged. This allows the editor to be opened for any of the classes for debugging.

  1. Ensure that a plug-in that uses the Eclipse UI is open in the workspace, such as com.packtpub.e4.hello.ui or com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui. This will ensure that the platform classes are available.
  2. Use the Navigate | Open Type menu or press Ctrl + Shift + T (Cmd + Shift + T on macOS) to open the Open Type search dialog. Type in Shell and select the Shell from the org.eclipse.swt.widgets package. Double-click or click on OK to open the file.

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    If the source code isn't shown, verify that the Eclipse Platform Plug-in Developer Resources plug-in has been installed and that there is an open plug-in project that depends on org.eclipse.ui or org.eclipse.swt. If the Open Type menu isn't shown, switch to the Java perspective or the Java Browsing...

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