Programmer's Guide

Guide

• Welcome to Eclipse
• Who needs a platform?
• The holy grail
• What is Eclipse?
• Go to eclipse.org
• Platform architecture
• Platform SDK roadmap
• Simple plug-in example
• A minimal plug-in
• Installing and running the plug-in
• Beyond the basics
• Resources overview
• Resources and the workspace
• Resources and the local file system
• Resource properties
• Beyond the basics
• Plugging into the workbench
• Workbench under the covers
• Basic workbench extension points
• org.eclipse.ui.views
• org.eclipse.ui.viewActions
• org.eclipse.ui.editors
• org.eclipse.ui.editorActions
• org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus
• org.eclipse.ui.actionSets
• org.eclipse.ui.actionSetPartAssociations
• The plug-in class
• Workbench menu contributions
• Menu and toolbar paths
• Boolean expressions and action filters
• More workbench extensions
• org.eclipse.ui.perspectives
• org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions
• org.eclipse.ui.elementFactories
• org.eclipse.ui.resourceFilters
• org.eclipse.ui.decorators
• Beyond the basics
• Dialogs and wizards
• Standard dialogs
• Application dialogs
• Dialog settings
• Wizards
• Workbench wizard extension points
• org.eclipse.ui.newWizards
• org.eclipse.ui.importWizards
• org.eclipse.ui.exportWizards
• Wizard dialogs
• Multi-page wizards
• Preferences and properties
• Preferences
• Contributing a preference page
• Implementing a preference page
• Field editors
• Property pages
• Contributing a property page
• Implementing a property page
• JFace UI framework
• Viewers
• Actions and contributions
• User interface resources
• Long-running operations
• Standard Widget Toolkit
• Widgets
• Controls
• Events
• Custom widgets
• Layouts
• FillLayout
• RowLayout
• FormLayout
• GridLayout
• Custom Layouts
• Threading issues
• Error handling
• Graphics
• Editors
• Workbench editors
• Text editors and JFace text
• Content outliners
• Resource and workspace API
• Resource markers
• Tracking resource changes
• Incremental project builders
• Workspace save participation
• Project natures
• Derived resources
• Resource modification hooks
• Advanced workbench concepts
• Marker help and resolution
• Contributing marker help
• Contributing marker resolution
• Accessible user interfaces
• Workbench key bindings
• Action definitions
• Accelerator sets
• Accelerator configurations
• Accelerator scopes
• Honoring single click support
• Text file encoding
• Working sets
• Retargetable actions
• Setting a global action handler
• Contributing new retargetable actions
• Retargetable editor actions
• Retargetable action set actions
• Compare support
• Implementing a structure compare viewer
• Implementing a content compare viewer
• Beyond the basics
• Team support
• Building an integrated team provider
• Repository providers
• Defining a provider
• Implementing a provider
• Resource modification hooks
• Finding a provider
• Repository resource management
• File types
• Project sets
• Team private resources
• Building a team UI
• Configuring a project
• Adding team actions
• Team decorators
• Adding preferences and properties
• Program debug and launch support
• Launching a program
• Adding launchers to the platform
• Handling errors from a launched program
• Launch configuration dialog
• Launch configuration type images
• Launch shortcuts
• Debugging a program
• Platform debug model
• Breakpoints
• Expressions
• Debug model presentation
• Debug UI utility classes
• Debug action groups
• Plugging in help
• Building a help plug-in
• Table of contents (toc) files
• Help server and file locations
• Completing the plug-in manifest
• Building nested documentation structures
• Infopops
• Declaring a context id
• Describing and packaging infopop content
• Active help
• Writing the help action
• Invoking the action from HTML
• Tips for debugging active help
• Platform Ant support
• Running Ant build files programmatically
• Ant tasks provided by the platform
• Contributing tasks and types
• Expanding the Ant classpath
• Packaging and delivering Eclipse based products
• What is a product?
• Features
• Primary feature
• Plug-ins and fragments
• Locale specific files
• Customizing a product
• Product installation guidelines
• Product extensions
• Updating a product or extension