13.5.1 Problem You've created a plug-in that supports a view, and you want to add items to that view. 13.5.2 Solution If you've created the plug-in with a PDE template, just customize the initialize method. 13.5.3 Discussion How you customize the items in a view depends on whether you've based that view on an SWT table or an SWT tree. In the example developed in the previous recipe, ViewPlugIn , our view was based on a tree. You create the tree structure under a TreeParent object named invisibleRoot in the initialize method of SampleView.java . The following code creates a tree of nodes in the view (note that in a real application, you'd build this tree to reflect your data model). private void initialize( ) { TreeObject to1 = new TreeObject("Item 1"); TreeObject to2 = new TreeObject("Item 2"); TreeObject to3 = new TreeObject("Item 3"); TreeObject to4 = new TreeObject("Item 4"); TreeParent p1 = new TreeParent("Parent 1"); p1.addChild(to1); p1.addChild(to2); p1.addChild(to3); p1.addChild(to4); TreeObject to5 = new TreeObject("Item 5"); TreeParent p2 = new TreeParent("Parent 2"); p2.addChild(to4); TreeParent root = new TreeParent("Root"); root.addChild(p1); root.addChild(p2); invisibleRoot = new TreeParent(""); invisibleRoot.addChild(root); } }
This configures the tree object that will appear in the view. To make these items actually do something when clicked (with either mouse button) or double-clicked, see the following recipe. 13.5.4 See Also Recipe 13.4 on creating a plug-in that supports views; Recipe 13.6 on configuring the actions for a view; Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 of Eclipse ( O'Reilly). | 