The Secondary ID
In many RCP applications your views (ViewParts) will not be singletons. Perhaps you have a tree or project view which is probably a “show only once” view, but for others it’s more likely you have them flagged in the plugin xml to say allowMultiple=”true” in the <view /> tag. For multiple views sharing the same [...]
MenuManagers and You
If you’re using Eclipse RCP (or even standalone SWT with JFace) you are most likely using MenuManagers in various places, for popup menus, toolbar menus, etc. You might be happily using them without much of a thought or care of where they end up after they have been shown or how their internal workings actually [...]
RCP Workspaces
An “Eclipse workspace” is basically a directory where all your metadata preference files are stored (Eclipse specific files, there’s a lot of them). It’s also where your projects are stored, your source files, jars, and so on. It’s useful to have all of this one one place, and Eclipse itself requires it or your workspace [...]
Glazed Lists + SWT Tables == True
If you haven’t heard about Glazed Lists until now, it’s about time you do, because it’s probably the last tables and grid sorting/filtering API you will ever need. It will also be the last time you rip your hair out when someone asks you for a multi-sort-multi-thread-asynchronously-updated-filtered-unique-table (which happens all the time, right?). From here [...]
