[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Decorators like in CVS/SVN plug-in

[Jakub Jurkiewicz <jakub.jurkiewicz@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Matthias pisze:
> Hello!
>
> I am registering my decorators at the decorator manager to decorate my 
> label provider. This works very well. The suffix or prefix text should 
> appear in another color than the text provided by the label provider. 
> The CVS/SVN plugins have such a nice feature: they provide versioning 
> information in a grayed color (in the package explorer), so that the 
> user can easily distinguish between various information. If I change the 
> color on the passed IDecorator (I am implmenting 
> ILightWeightLabelDecorator) then the whole label has the changed color, 
> not only the suffix/prefix text.
>
> How can I achieve such a behaviour like done in CVS/SVN plug-ins?!? Are 
> they using decorators or are they doing some other technique?!? Can 
> someone give me any hints or code how get such results?
>
> Thanks a lot,
> Matthias
Hi,

I don't know how to achieve this, however, you can look at the cvs 
source code and see how it is done.
Here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/CVS_Howto you have the 
information, how to get the Eclipse source code from the repository.

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kind regards,
Jakub

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