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Revision as of 10:23, 15 May 2008

a.k.a. "the twenty things"

This is a first list of "recommended APIs" - things that we expect most Eclipse plug-ins would make use of (if applicable).

Note that "the Workbench", "PlatformUI" or "Platform" are not on this list. Think of which services you would want to use from within your contributed view or editor.

Selection

ISelectionService - Listening to the current selection

Adapting objects

IAdapterManager - adapt an object (typically, the current selection) to a type that is relevant to the current plug-in

Scheduling Units of Work

IProgressService - Schedule Work in a way that is visible to the user Job, IJobManager - schedule and manage background jobs

Help

IWorkbenchHelpSystem

Undo/Redo

IWorkbenchOperationSupport

Preferences

IPreferenceStore - access preferences

Handlers

IHandlerService - register a handler for a global command like Copy/Paste

Bjorn asks: where is the list of the global commands? Do we have a namespace of commands? Can any plug-in contribute to the set of commands? How do we know what the semantics of a given command are?

UI Contributions

IMenuService - programmatic contribution to menus and toolbars

Open web pages

IWorkbenchBrowserSupport

Decorations

IDecoratorManager

Be Dynamic-Aware

IExtensionTracker

UI state persistence

IDialogSettings, IMemento - Persistence of UI state: layouts, dialog sizes, viewer selection and expansion state

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