June 2004
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 38m
English
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12.3. Creating a Menu-Based Plug-in Using Wizards
Problem
You want to create a plug-in that can add menus and menu items to the Eclipse IDE.
Solution
Use one of the plug-in templates available in the PDE to create a menu-supporting plug-in.
Discussion
With the Eclipse PDE, it’s easy to build and modify your own plug-ins. Here are the types of projects the PDE can create for you:
- Plug-in projects
A standard plug-in project
- Fragment projects
A project that acts as an add-on or addition to a plug-in
- Feature projects
Projects that contain one or more plug-ins
- Update Site projects
Web projects that can update features automatically
As an example, we’re going to create a new plug-in
in a project named MenuPlugIn that adds both a
menu and a toolbar button to the Eclipse IDE. To create the plug-in
project, select File→ New→ Project. Select Plug-in
Development in the left box of the New Project dialog and Plug-in
Project in the right box, as shown in Figure 12-2.
Then click Next.
Figure 12-2. Creating a new plug-in project
The following pane of the dialog asks for the
plug-in’s project name. Call it
org.cookbook.ch12.MenuPlugIn (this also will be
the ID of the plug-in when it comes time to use it in Eclipse), as
shown in Figure 12-3. Click Next.
Figure 12-3. Creating a name for the plug-in
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