June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 38m
English
Content preview from Eclipse Cookbook
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13.1. Creating a Plug-in That Supports Wizards and Editors
Problem
You want to create a plug-in that uses a wizard to create files and an editor to edit them.
Solution
Use a PDE Wizard template. Create a new plug-in project, select the “Plug-in with a multi-page editor” template, and follow the onscreen directions to create a skeletal template, ready to be customized.
Discussion
In this example, we’re going to create a plug-in
that Eclipse will associate with the file extension
.new. The plug-in’s wizard will
enable the user to create files with this extension, and when the
user double-clicks those files, they’ll appear in
the plug-in’s editor.
The PDE can help us out here by creating a template for our plug-in.
Select New→ Project. In the New Project dialog, select
Plug-in Development in the left box and Plug-in Project in the right
box, and click Next. Specify the name of the project as
org.cookbook.ch13.EditorPlugIn in the following
dialog, as shown in Figure 13-1.
Figure 13-1. Naming the plug-in
Click Next once again to bring up the Plug-in Code Generators dialog shown in Figure 13-2. Select the “Plug-in with a multi-page editor” template, as shown in the figure, and click Next.
Figure 13-2. Creating a plug-in with a multipage editor
In the next dialog, give the provider name as Eclipse ...