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Creating a new customized Outline-View [message #550691]

Wed, 04 August 2010 03:21

Eclipse User

Hi,

I want to create a new view that is very similar to the current Outline-View. The new Outline-View has to list some special contents of a CompilationUnit. I want the view to be updated if the current CompilationUnit in the JavaEditor is changed or exchanged by changing the current editor tab.
How can I do that? I searched through the JavaEditor code and recognized that a JavaOutlinePage is created by the JavaEditor. So I will have to subclass JavaEditor and rewrite some Methods that the Editor is able to create the new Outline-Page. How can I tell the Plugin to use the new JavaEditor?

I hope that I could explain what I want to do.
Thanks in advance.

Jochen

Re: Creating a new customized Outline-View [message #550727 is a reply to message #550691]

Wed, 04 August 2010 03:38

Eclipse User

Jochen Huck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to create a new view that is very similar to the current
> Outline-View. The new Outline-View has to list some special contents
> of a CompilationUnit. I want the view to be updated if the current
> CompilationUnit in the JavaEditor is changed or exchanged by changing
> the current editor tab.
> How can I do that? I searched through the JavaEditor code and
> recognized that a JavaOutlinePage is created by the JavaEditor. So I
> will have to subclass JavaEditor and rewrite some Methods that the
> Editor is able to create the new Outline-Page.
You don't need to subclass JavaEditor. You can update your view (input)
via part listener and listen for changes to the CU using an
org.eclipse.jdt.core.IElementChangedListener.

Dani
> How can I tell the Plugin to use the new JavaEditor?
>
> I hope that I could explain what I want to do.
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Jochen

Re: Creating a new customized Outline-View [message #550998 is a reply to message #550727]

Wed, 04 August 2010 15:17

Eclipse User

Thanks for your reply. I think this will solve the problem with updating the input for my view.
But I'd like to have another nice feature that the Outline-View offers. You can doubleclick on an element from the Outline-View and the JavaEditor automatically highlights the appropriate source code. It would also be nice to have this feature the other way around. Is something like that possible? Or will I have to create my own editor to do things like that?

Thanks again.

Jochen

Re: Creating a new customized Outline-View [message #551070 is a reply to message #550998]

Thu, 05 August 2010 01:59

Eclipse User

Jochen Huck wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. I think this will solve the problem with
> updating the input for my view.
> But I'd like to have another nice feature that the Outline-View
> offers. You can doubleclick on an element from the Outline-View and
> the JavaEditor automatically highlights the appropriate source code.
> It would also be nice to have this feature the other way around. Is
> something like that possible? Or will I have to create my own editor
> to do things like that?
@see ITextEditor#setHighlightRange(int, int, boolean)
@see ITextEditor#showHighlightRangeOnly(boolean)

Dani
>
> Thanks again.
>
> Jochen

Re: Creating a new customized Outline-View [message #551344 is a reply to message #551070]

Fri, 06 August 2010 01:52

Eclipse User

Thanks again for your help.

For everyone who is interested:
I solved the problem of refreshing my views input after a change in the java editor. A very good link is: http://pookzilla.net/wp/2006/10/link-to-editor/

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