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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

Why JFace?

While SWT provides generic implementations for basic widgets (such as trees, buttons, labels, and so on), these often work at a level that deals with strings and responds to selection by integer index. To make it easier to display structured content, JFace provides several viewers that provide combinations of SWT widgets and event managers to provide a UI for structured content.

There are many types of viewer—which are all subclasses of Viewer—but the most common ones are ContentViewer subclasses such as TreeViewer and TableViewer. There are also text-based viewers such as TextViewer and SourceViewer, as well as operational views such as DetailedProgressViewer for the Progress view. In this chapter, we will create views based on TreeViewer and TableViewer. Since JFace is based on SWT (described in Chapter 2, Creating Views with SWT), knowing how SWT works is essential to understand how JFace is used.

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