Tabbed Property View Evaluation Guide

1.0 Introduction

The Common UI Properties feature provides a set of extension points and supporting framework to implement a tabbed UI for the Eclipse properties view.

2.0 Getting Started

The com.ibm.xtools.common.ui.properties plug-in defines the following three extension points:

• The property contributor extension point describes a set of workbench parts that are contributors of properties to be displayed within tabs in the properties view.
  
  
• The property tabs extension point describes a list of tabs that will be contributed to the properties view.
  
  
• The property sections extension point describes a list of sections to be displayed within tabs that will be contributed to the property view. A section is a class that adds a set of widgets to a tab based on element selection and filtering. The sections are created using the Eclipse UI forms toolkit.
  
  

3.0 Example

Below is an example snapshot of a usage of the tabbed properties view. The properties view is displaying four tabs based on the selected element. The General tab is currently selected. This implementation has provided a standard label provider so that a title bar is displayed with the element icon and text.

4.0 Provide Feedback to Us

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For usage questions, discussion of bugs, and strange behaviour please post to the eclipse.webtools newsgroup. Information on the Web Tools Platform newsgroup can be found here.