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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 – iterating through resources


A project (represented by the IProject interface) is a top-level unit in the workspace (which is represented by the IWorkspaceRoot interface). These can contain resources (represented by the IResource interface), which are either folders or files (represented by the IFolder or IFile interfaces). They can be iterated with the members method, but this will result in the creation of IResource objects for every element processed, even if they aren't relevant. Instead, defer to the platform's internal tree by passing it a visitor that will step through each element required.

  1. Create a class MinimarkVisitor in the com.packtpub.e4.minimark.ui package that implements the IResourceProxyVisitor and IResourceDeltaVisitor interfaces.

  2. Implement the visit(IResourceProxy) method to get the name of the resource, and display a message if it finds a file whose name ends with .minimark. It should return true to allow child resources to be processed:

    public boolean...
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