Outline View Support

[ktingle]

I have built a simple editor plug-in for one of my companies proprietary file formats.

It works nicely but I would like to utilize the Outline window. Is there a special interface that my IEditorPart must implement to support the Outline View? How is this done?

Thanks in Advance,
Keith

[ktingle]

In case someone could use the help I will respond with what I found:

Insode your IEditorPart implementation, override the getAdapter() method.

public Object getAdapter(Class adapter) {
if (adapter == IContentOutlinePage.class) {
return new MyOutline();
}

return null;
}

Simplest way to implement IContentOutlinePage is to extend ContentOutlinePage.

class MyOutline extends ContentOutlinePage {...

Override the createControl() in your outline class and make sure to call the superclass version first so the treeviewer is created.

public void createControl(Composite parent) {
// Create the tree
super.createControl(parent);

// Content provider
if (getTreeViewer() != null) {
TreeViewer treeViewer = getTreeViewer();

Rest is just SWT treeviewer work, very simple to do this really., suprised no books cover this.

[dinu4u4ever]

hai... i have created a new editor and new view.... have to do similar action of breakpoint.... and add the editor atributes to my view.... can u pls guide me on this???thanks in advance