This code example belongs to the Eclipse RCP tutorial series.
Eclipse GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) contains three components: Draw2d (org.eclipse.draw2d), GEF (MVC) (org.eclipse.gef), and Zest (org.eclipse.zest). This tutorial is about GEF MVC.
Rich Client Platform(RCP)
Eclipse RCP Tutorial: Lay out your view with FormLayout
Let’s say each widget has 4 sides, e.g., a button has top, bottom, left, and right.
All of the following examples assume you know how to create a plug-in application with a view, as the code will work under
Eclipse RCP Tutorial: Add popup menu to editor context
1. What the popup menu looks like in an eclipse editor?
This tutorial shows how to add a popup menu item to an editor context. In this example, a menu item called “ShowIFile” is added like the following:
Eclipse RCP Tutorial: Add a Popup Menu
The following are snapshots of every step involved when creating a popup menu by using PDE.
Eclipse RCP Tutorial: Add a menu item to the popup menu when right click a file
The following tutorial shows how to add a menu item to the popup menu when right click a .java file in Package Explorer View.
If you know how to create a typical plug-in project, you can skip the first step.
Eclipse RCP Tutorial: How to install PDE
PDE is what you need for developing Eclipse Plug-in projects. Installing PDE is the first step for doing RCP development. It can be installed in two different ways. 1. Download an eclipse version with PDE Download site URL: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ The version you will need is “Eclipse for RCP and RAP Developers”. 2. Install PDE as … Read more
Eclipse Plug-in Development – Create a Perspective
A perspective is the container for a set of views and editors. The most commonly used perspective is probably “Java” which contains a set of views for Java development such as a package explorer, an editor, a console, etc. You can switch to another perspective by clicking “Window” -> “Open Perspective”. Switching perspectives let you … Read more
Eclipse PlatformUI Examples
In this tutorial, I will use examples to show you how to use the Eclipse PlatformUI class. PlatformUI is a final class defined in org.eclipse.ui package. It provides access function to the Eclipse Platform User Interface. All methods inside of PlatformUI class are static and the class can not be initialized. Example 1: Fetch current … Read more
Learn Eclipse RCP framework by using open source projects
Open source is not a new concept and you can find open source projects for almost all commonly used frameworks. In 2010, UCI published their project corpus which contains about 18,000 open source java projects. We can easily search and find projects that use popular frameworks such as Eclipse RCP, Struts 2, Spring, Android, etc. … Read more
Make tag cloud in Java by using SWT drawing
This post also assumes that you have a standalone Eclipse RCP application. You can find out how to make one here. You may have tried some free tools to generate tag cloud or text cloud, but they may not exactly what you want. As a Java programmer, you can quickly implement such a function by … Read more
Draw points or various shapes by using Eclipse SWT
If you don’t want to use latex or metapost to plot your research data, Java is also good for that. We can use SWT to draw those points on axis or any positions on a panel, and this can be done very quickly. First of all, you need to use eclipse RCP wizard to create … Read more
Eclipse RCP Layout: SWT GridLayout
If you develop an RCP rich client application, sooner or later you will have to know some layout to organize the widgets in your view. This code example requires that you have an RCP application with a view. Here is how to make an RCP app with a view. This tutorial is about the most … Read more
Add JDBC Database Connection to an Eclipse Plug-in
When you add JDBC database connection to an Eclipse plug-in, you may get the following error message: Error message(partial): java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.mysql.jdbc.Driver at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClassInternal(BundleLoader.java:506) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:422) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.loader.BundleLoader.findClass(BundleLoader.java:410) at org.eclipse.osgi.internal.baseadaptor.DefaultClassLoader.loadClass(DefaultClassLoader.java:107) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source) You may check again and again if the JDBC library has already added to the build path. That will not work, because JDBC … Read more
Eclipse RCP Tutorial: Commonly-used Eclipse Workbench Extension Points
1. What is a Workbench? The following diagram is from eclipse official site. In brief, when you open your eclipse, what you see is a workbench. It consists of a menu bar, a tool bar, a page which is composed by one or more views/editors. 2. Commonly Used Extension Points The following are commonly or … Read more
Eclipse RCP Tutorial: How to Add a Progress Bar
This tutorial is about eclipse Job and it consists two parts. The first part introduces how to make a progress bar by using a simple example. The second part briefly illustrates Eclipse Job for background processing. 1. A Simple Example of Progress Bar in Eclipse Suppose you have a working RCP application with a sample … Read more