We have an eclipse plugin which has been created using Xtext. And now I want to add a context menu to an Element inside the Outline View inside Eclipse. I understand that I need to have a menuContribution which will invoke a Command. But what I dont understand is, do I have to create (define) a command in some way or the other.
My plugin.xml contains an extension point for "org.eclipse.ui.menus".
Menu Contribution is something like this:
I find tutorials that talk about creating menu contributions, but there is nothing which will tie up my menuContribution to a command I want to define.
Typically you will need three extensions:
org.eclipse.ui.command
org.eclipse.ui.handlers
org.eclipse.ui.menu
It requires some fidling to get them right. I suggest you look at some open source code and starts from there.
Introduction article: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseCommands/article.html
The locationUri of the context menu you like to contribute to should be popup:org.eclipse.xtext.ui.outline.OutlinePageContextMenu. Found here: https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-eclipse/blob/master/org.eclipse.xtext.ui/src/org/eclipse/xtext/ui/editor/outline/impl/OutlinePage.java
I'm using Eclipse as default IDE. In Eclipse there is a visual editor available to insert HTML tags in your *.html files. I'm using a lot of DOJO in my current project and want to add these widgets to the palette view. I assumed that there would be an option to add custom widgets/tags easily(palette's contextmenu or something), but this is not (yet) implemented. Does somebody knows if there is an option to add custom widgets in Eclipse?
I've already Googled a lot and didn't found where I am looking for.
ps. I don't want to use other editors(Maqetta, WDT-plugin, ...).
I am trying to develop an eclipse plugin that does some documentation check on java code and highlights some lines of code in the editor.
To achieve my goal, I DON'T want to create a new editor in eclipse, I simply want to extend the default java editor to draw a line under (or highlight) the methods that do not satisfy some set of predetermined requirements.
Do I need to create a PresentationReconciler? If yes, how do I make the JDT or workbench use my reconciler.
I have never done plugin development and this is my first attempt.
Several starting points for you:
Annotations are an UI feature of JFace's text editor that allows you to visually mark some places in an open editor.
Markers are a Workbench feature, more high-level. They are generic "objects that may be associated with Workbench resources", and they can display in several places: in text editors (as annotations) or in the Problems view, for example.
Depending on what you want to do, you would plug in your plug-in into extension points related to either of those.
The Eclipse Java editor is located in the org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javaeditor.JavaEditor package.
The "internal" in the package name means that the Eclipse development team can change how the Java editor works with new revisions.
Try this help page: Juno Help on syntax highlighting
At the end of the page, it describes how to dynamically add a PresentationReconciler, which is used for syntax highlighting. See if that fits the problem that you want to solve.
I assume you already have a plugin project.
In your plugin.xml, open the tab Extensions, click Add..., search for org.eclipse.ui.editors, then you should see a template named Editor, which will produce a simple xml editor to experiment and play with. Also, you will be able to see the needed structure to define a custom editor.
Hope this helps...
I don't know if you still have a need for this, but you are going to want to use Annotations to keep track of what parts of the editor you need to highlight.
For actually doing the graphical effect of highlighting, you could do syntax highlighting via a PresentationReconciler, but I have no experience with that.
We used a technique we borrowed from http://editbox.sourceforge.net/, replacing the background image of the editor Shell. Its open source, so check it out. (Our code might also help -- its at https://github.com/IDE4edu/EclipseEditorOverlay )
I registered a custom editor with eclipse extension point "org.eclipse.ui.editors" as follows.
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.editors">
<editor
class="com.xxx.designer.scxml.ui.ScxmlDiagramEditor"
id="com.xxx.designer.scxml.ui.ScxmlDiagramEditor"
extensions="scdiagram"
name="SCXML Editor">
</editor>
It works fine, this editor is associated with .scdiagram files. However, every time I click on one same .scdiagram file, it opens a new instance for me instead of highlighting the opened file. Any idea on this?
Thanks,
Jie
All you need to do is make your IEditorInput return true for the same files. You could implement this by comparing the canonical names of your files. Don't forget to also override the hashCode() method. What issues should be considered when overriding equals and hashCode in Java?
See Lars Vogel's excellent tutorial Eclipse Editor Plugin Tutorial for more details on using Editors.
Here's how my question was resolved eventually. It's related to Graphiti and solution is also tied to the framework.
Since I subclassed Graphiti's diagram editor, all I need to do is to set org.eclipse.graphiti.ui.editor.DiagramEditorMatchingStrategy as the editor's matching strategy in plugin.xml.
I am writing an eclipse plug-in that extends editor. Inside the editor I put some EditParts. From some of these edit parts I need a reference to their encapsulating editor (so that for example, when clicking an instance of MyEditPart, I want to programmatically close the editor).
Please advise on the API to get from an EditPart instance to the Editor it is in.
Thanks.
You can try:
IEditorPart editor = ((DefaultEditDomain) getViewer().getEditDomain()).getEditorPart();
from the EditPart.