Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, and more Benjamin Pasero

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Goal for Today: Pimping the Mail Template  First Part  Custom SWT Widgets  Custom Owner Drawn using latest 3.4 API  Rich Tooltips with JFace  Second Part  Custom Presentation  Product Transformation  Custom Splash Handler

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Setup Eclipse 3.4 and the Mail Template  Make sure to use Eclipse 3.4 M5  Create a new Plug-in Project  From the Templates choose RCP Mail Template  Open the plugin.xml  Execute Launch an Eclipse application  The UI is nice, but we can do better!

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Using the PShelf Widget from Nebula  The Nebula Project:  Official source for custom SWT Widgets  Examples  Grid  Gallery  GanttChart  PShelf  CDateTime

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Writing our own Custom Widget  SWT:Two strategies  Custom Widget by extending Canvas  Custom Compound Widget by extending Composite  Goal: Simple Link Widget that supports Image and Text  Features  Looks and behaves like a real link  Listener for handling selection  Keyboard Accessibility

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Custom Owner Drawn Inbox  New JFace-API in Eclipse 3.4: SimpleStyledCellLabelProvider  Use it to have mixed styles per Table- or Treeitem  Hides complexity of custom owner drawn  Mixed fonts not yet supported  We want to draw the number of unread Mails  Using a different Color  We want to highlight Folders  Using an Underline

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Rich Tooltips using JFace  JFace makes it easy to add rich tooltips to Viewers  CellLabelProvider provides API to define the custom Tooltip  Text and Image  Foreground and Background color  We want to preview a Mail by using a rich tooltip:

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Custom Mail Presentation: Large and In Charge  Presentations allow to make our RCP app not look like Eclipse  Eclipse offers extension points to add our own Presentation  org.eclipse.ui.presentationFactories  org.eclipse.ui.themes  Goal for our Presentation  Large Round Tabs  Close Button will be a red Arc  Foundation for our Product Transformation with large Icons

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved.

Product Transforms  Presentations allow for extreme customization  but some things are beyond their reach  Themes can allow for an additional axis of customization  but they don't cover images  Time to break out the chainsaw and apply some product transforms  Remove/modify extensions from plugins outside of your control  Swap in new icon sets  Help available:

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Our Mail Transformation in a Nutshell  We register a framework extension that OSGI loads on startup  org.eclipse.equinox.transforms.hook  We register a Service for the transformation with some properties  Use the ReplaceTransformer  Use transform.csv for the replacement  We ensure early startup using a custom config.ini for  org.mailtemplate.transform  org.eclipse.equinox.transforms.replace

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Custom Splash Screen  Using the org.eclipse.ui.splashHandlers Extension Point  Getting full control of the Shell that is used for the Splash on startup  Let’s have a look at the available templates  Adding product images  Simulated session log-in  Embedded Browser (?)

Plastic Surgery For Eclipse: Custom SWT Widgets, RCP Customization, And More | Copyright © IBM Corp., All rights reserved. Pointers & References  Eclipse Corner Articles:  Eclipse Wiki:  Eclipse SWT  Snippets:  Examples:  Community:  The Nebula Project 

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