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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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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 – styling the UI with CSS

Eclipse 4 user interfaces are styled with CSS. Although this is loosely based on the CSS syntax used by browsers, the stylesheet is interpreted by the Eclipse 4 runtime. CSS stylesheets are composed of selectors and style rules: a selector can be one of a widget name (for example, Button), a model class name (for example, .MPartStack), or an identifier (for example, #PerspectiveSwitcher).

  1. The default Eclipse 4 application with sample content (generated by the wizard in Chapter 7, Creating an E4 Application, will have an empty CSS file called css/default.css. Open this file, and add the following rule:
    Shell {
      background-color: blue;
    }

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    The File | New | Plug-in Project menu can be used to create a new plug-in project, and the Would you like to create a rich client application? combined with the This plug-in will make contributions to the UI will allow the creation of an Eclipse 4 application for testing purposes if required. If this is chosen...

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