Time for action – groups and tab folders

A new TimeZoneView will show a list of clocks in time zones around the world. This time, instead of using the plug-in wizard, the extension will be added manually.

Note

The way views are defined for E4 is covered in Chapter 7, Creating Eclipse 4 Applications. This chapter discusses how to do it in Eclipse 3.x and the Eclipse 3.x compatibility model of Eclipse 4.x.

  1. Right-click on the project and navigate to Plug-in Tools | Open Manifest, or find the plugin.xml file in the navigator and double-click on it.
  2. Go to the manifest editor's Extensions tab. The extensions will list org.eclipse.ui.views. Expand this, and underneath the Timekeeping (category) the Clock View (view) will be displayed, added via the plug-in ...

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