Utility classes for Eclipse RCP development

p2 repository

http://www.ralfebert.de/projects/releases/rcputils/

Overview

• JFace Structured Viewers

  • TableViewerBuilder A convenient builder class for creating TableViewers with support for nested properties, sorting and editing
  • ContextMenu is an utility class to create context menus for structured viewers.
  • SelectionUtils.getIterable(): Iterate over a JFace selection in a for each loop

• Concurrent UIs

  • UIProcess is a Job base class which allows to update the UI after the job was completed.

• JFace Data Binding

  • ChangeTracker allows to react on changes in all model or target observables in a DataBindingContext globally. Can be used to set the dirty flag of an editor when something changes.
  • DataBindingEditorPart is a base class for EditorParts that want to use DataBinding. Provides a observable for partname and has a dirty attribute that can be registered as change listener to ChangeTracker.
  • ModelDataBindingEditorPart is base class for editors that use data binding to edit a single model object.

• Nested properties

  • PropertyValue: Resolves nested property Strings like "company.country.name".
  • PropertyLabelProvider: LabelProvider that gets labels using a bean property.
  • PropertyCellLabelProvider: CellLabelProvider that gets labels using a bean property.
  • PropertyEditingSupport: EditingSupport that gets / sets the values using a bean property.

• Mockups

  • RandomData: RandomData generates random data. This is helpful for generating test data for UI mockup prototypes and test cases.

• Commands / Handler

  • ToggleHandler Handler base class for style="toggle" command contributions.

License

• Eclipse Public License - v1.0
• http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html