ANCIT | Eclipse PDE Tutorial

Plugin Development Environment
Part 1 - Perspective, Views and Actions This tutorial explains on how to create Create a Perspective. Add a Custom View Create View Actions and Action Sets
Part 2 - Introduction to Table Viewer This tutorial explains What is a JFace Viewer ? How to create a Table Viewer ? Attaching a Content and Label Provider Display Model on the Table Viewer
Part 3 - Introduction to Cell Editors This tutorial explains How to attach Cell Editors to Viewers ? Defining CellModifiers & CellEditors Updating Model on Editing
Part 4 - Introduction to Eclipse Wizards This tutorial explains Contributing Wizards thru plugin.xml Creating Wizard and Managing Lifecycle of a Wizard Creating Wizard Page and Managing Lifecycle of a Wizard Page Handling Multi Page Wizard
Part 5 - Introduction to Commands & Handlers This tutorial explains Creating a Command using plugin.xml Attaching it to Menu Contribution Attaching it to Toolbar Contribution
Eclipse PDE Fundamentals A Quick Overview of various Eclipse PDE Topics Perspectives Views Editors Form Editors Dialogs Wizards JFace Viewers Commands and Handlers Rich Client Platform
Eclipse in Pics Series Quick Reference BlockDiagrams What is an IDE ? Types of an IDE. Extension vs Extension Point Eclipse Delivery Model Eclipse Plugin Architecture Manifest Editor & Its Use Selection Service Model Building Blocks of Eclipse Eclipse IDE Blocks Call Hierarchy of Viewers [Providers]

RCP
ePics IDE & Extension vs Extension Point Eclipse Delivery Model & Eclipse Plugin Architecture Manifest Editor,Selection Service Model & Building Blocks of Eclipse Eclipse IDE Blocks & Call Hierarchy of TreeViewer's Content and Label Provider
Command - An Introduction Create command with org.eclipse.ui.commands. Add command to menu via org.eclipse.ui.menus Define in plugin.xml and run.
Creating an Eclipse Rcp Application Create a minimal RCP application plugin. Add menus using makeActions() and fillMenuBar(). Configure and export as an EXE.
Form Page - An Introduction (ANCIT) Create a UI plugin project with necessary dependencies. Define a FormEditor and add a FormPage Implement addPages() to register the page and run the editor
Remove Unwanted MenuItem & Unwanted Prefrence page From RCPApplication) Use MenuManager to hide all menu items In ApplicationWorkbenchWindowAdvisor, use hideActionSet() to hide specific menus Remove unwanted preference pages

NatTable
NatTable Introduction Framework for large, customizable tables. Build tables with layers for features like scrolling and selection Use ListDataProvider and DataLayer for data management.
Nat Table(Custom Column Properties) Implement IColumnPropertyAccessor for custom column data. Set up column, row, and corner headers. Configure popup menus and cell editing support.
NatTable Adding Column Header Create ColumnPropertyAccessor to manage column data. Set up column, row, and corner headers. Combine layers with a grid layer for the table.
Nattable Add Popup Menu Set AutoConfig to false, use ConfigRegistry for settings and UiBindingRegistry for bindings. Use PopupMenuBuilder to create and register a menu. Enable debugging with DebugMenuConfiguration.
Nattable CellEditor Configuration Register CELL_EDITABLE_RULE for text editing in IConfigRegistry. Apply different cell editors for various columns.
Nattable Selection Provider Implement ISelectionProvider for selection support. Connect to SelectionLayer. Use IRowDataProvider for row data.