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Information for Reusing Eclipse Components within your RCP application
Goal of this Page
This page should collect hints on how to get the relevant information on how to use an extension from eclipse (like the project explorer, the perspective editor, standard commands etc), within your own Eclipse RCP application. The purpose is especially to collect the plugins and their ids, along with additional information on how to use the.
Please edit this page for it to become useful!
How to extract information about components
- A good source on how to extract information about installed plugins is Vogella's article [1]
- The Plugin-Spy is a must (press Shift+Alt+F1 within an editor, wizard, .. etc. or Shift+Alt+F2 and select a menu entry)
List of specific Extensions/Functionality
Functionality | Extension Point | Source Plugin | ID | Notes |
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Save Command | org.eclipse.ui.commands | org.eclipse.ui | org.eclipse.ui.file.save | see plugin.xml in org.eclipse.ui_*.jar for more |
Exit Command | org.eclipse.ui.commands | org.eclipse.ui | org.eclipse.ui.file.exit | see plugin.xml in org.eclipse.ui_*.jar for more |
Cut Command | org.eclipse.ui.commands | org.eclipse.ui | org.eclipse.ui.edit.cut | see plugin.xml in org.eclipse.ui_*.jar for more |
Add views short list/perspective short list etc. | Utilize ContributionItemFactory, see Czetsuya's tech blog [2] |