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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide

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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 – drawing a seconds hand

A clock with no hands and no numbers is just a circle. To change this, a second hand will be drawn using a filled arc.

Since arcs are drawn anticlockwise from 0 (on the right, or 3 o'clock) through 90 degrees (12 o'clock), then 180 degrees (9 o'clock), then 270 degrees (6 o'clock), and finally back to 360 degrees (3 o'clock), it is possible to calculate the arc's position for the second hand using the expression (15 – seconds) * 6 % 360.

  1. Go to the drawClock method of the ClockView class.
  2. Add a variable called seconds that is initialized to LocalTime.now().getSecond().
  3. Get the SWT.COLOR_BLUE via the display, and store it in a local variable, blue.
  4. Set the background color of the graphics context to blue.
  5. Draw an arc using the formula mentioned earlier to draw the second hand.
  6. The code should look like this:
    public void paintControl(PaintEvent e) {
      e.gc.drawArc(e.x, e.y, e.width-1, e.height-1, 0, 360);
      int seconds...
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