eclipse-pde

How to get access to Eclipse fileindex/EFS or how to find a specific file with a plugin?

Hi I want to create a Eclipse Plugin which search in all open projects/EFS for a specific file. The first aproach was, to walk over the full filesystemtree, what is not very fast. Now I want to reuse the mechanism behind the "Open Resource" Dialog (CTRL+SHIFT+R) ~ OpenResourceDialog . But how it is possible to access the mechanism/file...

How to export Eclipse RCP through command line

Hi All, We have an Eclipse RCP product, for automation purpose, we'd like to export this product through the command line. Actually, I found someone asked the similar questions before, such as http://stackoverflow.com/questions/133234/building-eclipse-plugins-and-features-on-the-command-line. I followed the Eclipse PDE help guides, and...

eclipse listener for main menu bar selections

hey there i am trying to capture user selections from the menu bar , for example if the user pressed File in the menu, my plug-in gonna print "File pressed". i figured out how to listen to view selections by IselectionService , but still has no clue how to do it with the main menu bars(or toolbars). thanx for help More details : ...

Eclipse Plugin Read Std Error

I am trying to write an Eclipse plugin which needs to read the std error inside eclipse. E.g. the red text that appears in the console. I cannot find the correct extension point for something like this. The best I could find was org.eclipse.ui.console.consolePatternMatchListeners but this just matches console lines regardless of their o...

Bundle-Classpath jars not put into dev.properties on PDE launch

I have an eclipse plugin project that requires a lot of external jar file dependencies. The plugin places these on the Bundle-Classpath and includes them in the plugin when built through build.properties. If you export the plugin and run it through eclipse, everything works fine. When running through the launch configuration (ie: debuggi...

Writing an Eclipse-aware Ant task

Hello, I would like to write a simple Ant task that would interact with an Eclipse workspace to get some information from it. I would like to be able to use the various Eclipse API's (for example, IWorkspace). My question is what would be the simplest way to go about doing this. I have excellent knowledge of the Eclipse platform as a ...