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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

Chapter 4 – Interacting with the User

Understanding menus

1. A command can be associated with a handler to provide a menu item. Handlers are indirection mechanisms that allow the same menu (example Copy) to take on different commands based on which context they are in. It is also possible to have a default command id associated with a menu to avoid this indirection.

2. The M1 key is an alias for Cmd on macOS, and for Ctrl on other platforms. When defining standard commands like copy (M1+C) it has the expected behaviour on both platforms (Cmd + C for macOS and Ctrl + C for others).

3. Keystrokes are bound to commands via a binding, which lists the key(s) necessary to invoke and the associated command/handler.

4. A menu's locationURI is where it will contribute the entry to the UI. These are specified either as relative to an existing menu's contribution, or to its generic additions entry. It is also possible to specify custom ones which are associated with custom code.

5. A pop...

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