1. Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 | March 18, 2008 | Nitin Dahyabhai What can the WTP Snippets View do for me?

2. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 What is it? A view for holding scraps of text that you want to use and reuse by dragging them into your favorite editors or at the push of a button.

3. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 What can I do with it? Add your own drawers and items, showing, (auto) hiding, and arranging them however you please

4. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 What can I do with it? Drag and drop text into your favorite editors in Europa

5. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 What can I do with it? Define variables to be filled in during the drop

6. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 How do I add my own items? Customizer dialog, from the context menu Quick Paste as Snippet context menu action Add to Snippets context menu action in selected editors

7. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 So is there an extension point I can use?

8. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 YES!

9. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 What can you do with the extension point? Add drawers and items, controlling when they’re visible Set variables for the users to fill in

10. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 What can you do with the extension point? Contributed items use the ISnippetInsertion interface  Control the behavior during push-button insertion  Control the behavior when dropped using a custom SWT Transfer Type. Redefine the entire UI, including custom dialogs, wizards…the sky’s the limit.

11. What can the WTP Snippets View do for me? | Copyright © IBM Corp., 2008. All rights reserved; made available under the EPL v1.0 456 How do I get it? WTP builds  http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads Europa for Java EE  http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/jee.php http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/jee.php As a proposed Expanded Download  http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_Expanded_Downloads

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