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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

Time for action – using the CSS Spy

To provide interactive debugging, Eclipse 4 has the CSS Spy, a dialog that can provide information about the user interface widget under the mouse. This can be invoked from the Quick Access search box, by typing css spy, or by pressing the Shift + Alt + F5 keys.

  1. Move the cursor to the Quick Access search box by pressing Cmd + 3 (on macOS) or Ctrl + 3 (on other platforms), or by clicking in the search box with the mouse.
  2. Enter spy in the quick access bar, and a list of Eclipse 4 spies will be shown, including the CSS Spy:
    Time for action – using the CSS Spy
  3. Select the CSS Spy from the list, and the spy view will be shown. The user interface is represented as a tree structure, and by selecting individual elements of the user interface, a red highlight box will show where the selected element is located on screen:
    Time for action – using the CSS Spy
  4. It is also possible to open the spy in its own window by pressing the Alt + Shift + F5 keys:
    Time for action – using the CSS Spy

    Tip

    If the CSS spy is not shown in a floating window, reset the perspective with Window...

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