13.4. Creating a Plug-in That Supports Views
Problem
You need your plug-in to support a view.
Solution
Use the PDE template “Plug-in with a view.”
Discussion
This next example will build a plug-in that supports a view—in
this case, a clickable tree of items. To follow along, create a new
plug-in project named
org.cookbook.ch13.ViewPlugIn
. In the Plug-in
Code Generators dialog, shown in Figure 13-9, select
“Plug-in with a view” and click
Next.
Figure 13-9. Configuring a plug-in with a view
In the next dialog, set the provider name to
Eclipse
Cookbook
, as shown in
Figure 13-10.
Figure 13-10. Setting the provider name
Clicking Next brings up the Main View Settings dialog shown in Figure 13-11. Here’s where you customize
the view, setting its name, as well as a whether it should be a
tree-based view or a table-based view. Name the view Item View
, and make it a tree-based view, as shown in the
figure. Click Next again to bring up the final dialog of this wizard.
Figure 13-11. Setting view options
In the last dialog, you configure the view’s actions. Leave the defaults selected, and click Finish to create the template for this plug-in (see Figure 13-12).
Figure 13-12. Configuring the view’s actions
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