Time for action – creating a tree viewer
As with the previous chapter, a new TimeZoneTreeView
class will be created using the plugin.xml
editor, as an E4 view. This will show time zones, organized hierarchically by region.
- Right-click on the
com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui
project and navigate to Plug-in Tools | Open Manifest if it's not open already. - Open the Extensions tab and go to the
org.eclipse.ui.views
entry. Right-click on this, navigate to New | e4view, and fill in the following:- ID:
com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui.views.TimeZoneTreeView
- Name:
Time Zone Tree View
- Class:
com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui.views.TimeZoneTreeView
- Category:
com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui
- Icon:
icons/sample.gif
- ID:
- An entry is created in the
plugin.xml
file that looks like:<e4view category="com.packtpub.e4.clock.ui" ...
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