Time for action – propagating selection

When the user selects an item in a viewer component, any registered selection listeners will be notified. In order to forward changes to the E4 selection service, a listener needs to be created to forward the selection to the ESelectionService.

  1. Add the required packages to the bundle's package imports, by right-clicking on the com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui project and navigating to Plug-in Tools | Open Manifest to open the bundle's manifest. On the Dependencies tab, click on Add under the Imported Packages section and enter org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.modeling as well as org.eclipse.e4.core.di.annotations.
  2. In order to forward selection changes to the E4 selection service, it must be injected into the view. Add ...

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