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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Extend and customize Eclipse

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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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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

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 – binding commands to keys


Hooking up the command to a keystroke requires a KeyBinding. This allows a key (or series of keys) to be used to invoke the command instead of only via the menu. KeyBindings are set up inside a Binding Table and associated with a Binding Context.

  1. Open the fragment.e4xmi in the clock.ui project.

  2. In the imports, select the Binding Context from the dropdown and click on Add. In the Reference-ID, click on Find… and a dialog will be shown with the contexts. Choose the org.eclipse.ui.contexts.dialogAndWindow context:

  3. Once the binding context has been imported, it can be used within a binding table. Click on Model Fragments and select Add to create a new fragment. Fill in the details as follows:

    1. Extended Element ID: org.eclipse.e4.legacy.ide.application

    2. Feature Name: bindingTables

  4. In the BindingTable element, choose the org.eclipse.ui.contexts.dialogAndWindow context. This will ensure that the key binding is available in all windows and dialogs:

  5. Click on...

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