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You can add custom search pages to the Eclipse Search dialog by adding | You can add custom search pages to the Eclipse Search dialog by adding | ||
an extension to the <tt>org.eclipse.search.searchPages</tt> extension | an extension to the <tt>org.eclipse.search.searchPages</tt> extension | ||
| − | point. This page, which must implement the | + | point. This page, which must implement the <tt>ISearchPage</tt> interface, |
| − | <tt>ISearchPage</tt> interface, | + | should have input fields for whatever search criteria you want to allow. |
| − | + | Figure 16.1 shows an example search page that allows the user to search | |
| − | + | for files based on their size. | |
| − | user to search for files based on their size. | + | |
| − | + | <img src=../images/size_search.png> | |
| − | + | '''Figure 16.1''' The Search dialog showing our example Size Search page | |
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Latest revision as of 05:20, 12 August 2007
You can add custom search pages to the Eclipse Search dialog by adding an extension to the org.eclipse.search.searchPages extension point. This page, which must implement the ISearchPage interface, should have input fields for whatever search criteria you want to allow. Figure 16.1 shows an example search page that allows the user to search for files based on their size.
<img src=../images/size_search.png> Figure 16.1 The Search dialog showing our example Size Search page
The code for creating the dialog page is much
the same as for any other group of SWT widgets. The one caveat
is that your createControl method must call
setControl after your widget is created to let the dialog
know what your top-level control is. Complete source code for the dialog
is included in the FAQ Examples plug-in.
When the Search button is clicked, the performAction method
is called on your search page. This method should perform the
search and return true if the search was successful. If the
user enters invalid search parameters, you should present a
dialog explaining the error, and return false
from the performAction method. Returning false
causes the dialog to remain open so the user can fix the search parameters.
Your query page can, optionally, include a standard area allowing the user
to specify a search scope. This scope can be the entire
workspace, the selected resources, the selected projects, or a
user-defined working set.
If you want this scope area to appear in your page, include the
attribute showScopeSection = "true" in your
search page extension declaration. If you do include this,
you should consult the chosen scope via the ISearchPageContainer
instance that is passed to your page and make sure that your search operation
honors the value of the scope.
Note that you are not restricted to creating queries based on files.
The search dialog has pages for finding plug-ins and help contents as well.
Other plug-ins are available on the Web for performing Bugzilla queries,
news queries, and more. However, the infrastructure for presenting
results in the Search Results view is limited to file-based searches. If your
search is not operating on files, you will need to create your own view
or dialog for presenting search results.
See Also:
FAQ_How_do_I_implement_a_search_operation?
FAQ_How_do_I_display_search_results?
This FAQ was originally published in Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs. Copyright 2004, Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. This text is made available here under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0.