[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: unable to add view to an extension in Ec

[Daniel Krügler <dsp@xxxxxxx>]

Orestis Markou wrote:
> I have the exact same problem... Did you find out the plugins to add ?

First some recapitulation to ensure everyone of us has the same level:

- Open Plugin editor of the plugin.xml of the project, which wants to
provide a new view (Double-click plugin.xml)
- Goto tab "Dependencies" and add the required plug-ins

org.eclipse.core.runtime
org.eclipse.ui

if they are not already there. This step must be done, **before** you 
define your ext. pt, otherwise you will not have much success!
- Goto tab "Extensions", choose "Add.." and select 
"org.eclipse.ui.views". Now a new item "org.eclipse.ui.views" should be 
visible in the list.
- Right-click on the selected item, choose "New > view". Now a new sub 
element below the "org.eclipse.ui.views" element should have occured.
- Click on that new element and you will see a lot of edit fields on the
right of the list. One of these items has name "class*". You can click 
on the "class*" label and you are ready to define a new view class.

Note that you only have to define the necessary stuff of that ext. pt. 
(the book will tell you, which). The RCP framework ensures 
creation/representation issues automatically.

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler