Bundles, Extension Points, Extensions View for Eclipse 3.4

The BEPEB View is replacement for PDE's Plug-ins view. It allows you to explore:

• Bundles
• Extensions Points
• Extensions

You can start with any one of these at the top level by using the toolbar settings. You can continue to expand the relationships between these objects to any level.

Several actions are supported in the context menu:

• Open plugin.xml
• Copy extension and extension element trees
• Open Java Type specified by attributes which specify implementing Java classes.

For example, the Copy Extension action copied the following xml to the Clipboard:

Export a file containing the names and locations of the shared projects in the workspace.

I plan to make more enhancements to this view.

You can download it here.

DISCLAIMER: This plug-in is experimental. So no guarantees. Use the plug-in at your own risk.

Reclaim Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for familiar Copy and Paste in gnome-terminal

Most people work with graphical desktops. Most desktop (GUI) applications use the Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V for Copy and Paste actions respectively. One gets use to these really fast. However, when working with bash shell running inside a gnome-terminal those key bindings mean something different i.e. Ctrl+C sends the kill signal to the foreground process and Ctrl+V is used for quoted insert functionality (i.e. to enter control keys literally). This is the legacy of the command line oriented Unix terminals based on tty (stty - program that controls the settings of tty devices).

In this entry I describe how to make Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V do Copy and Paste in gnome-terminals. Here is how to do it:

Open a gnome-terminal window and type the following commands:

> stty intr ^K         # free Ctrl+C for copy
> stty lnext ^-        # free Ctrl+V for paste
> stty -g
> stty -g > ~/.stty    # store the settings in home directory

Add the following to .bashrc

case $- in
*i*)
stty `cat ~/.stty`     #  reload the stored stty settings
bind -u quoted-insert  #  unbind the quoted-insert function of bash - free Ctrl+V for paste
esac

Now using the gconf-editor, edit the gnome-terminal's key bindings (@ /apps/gnome-terminal/keybindings key).

Close and reopen the terminal window. And now Ctrl+C will copy and Ctrl+V will paste.

Launching the Open Type dialog

You can use the following code to launch the JDT's Open Type dialog to select a Java Type name and then open it in the Java editor programmatically:

OpenTypeSelectionDialog dialog = new OpenTypeSelectionDialog(
    PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getShell(),
    true,
    PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getProgressService(),
    null,
    IJavaSearchConstants.TYPE);
dialog.setTitle(JavaUIMessages.OpenTypeAction_dialogTitle);
dialog.setMessage(JavaUIMessages.OpenTypeAction_dialogMessage);
dialog.setInitialPattern("java.lang.String");

int result= dialog.open();
if (result != IDialogConstants.OK_ID)
{
    return;
}

Object[] types= dialog.getResult();
if (types != null && types.length > 0) {
    IType type= null;
    for (int i= 0; i < types.length; i++) {
        type= (IType) types[i];
        try {
            JavaUI.openInEditor(type, true, true);
        } catch (CoreException x) {
            // Handle exception
        }
    }
}

Enhanced Plug-in Registry View

The Plug-in Registry View Enhancements Plug-in enhances the Plug-in Registry View.

The Plug-in Registry View has a mode (Show Extension Content only) to show:

• extension-points
• extensions
• extension elements
• extension attributes

This plug-in adds some additional actions on the Plug-in Registry View's tool bar. The following screen shot shows the example of the additional actions.

For attributes with values that look like Java Type name - the Open action opens the Open Type dialog:

This works well if you have added all the plug-in classes to your Java search using the tip - Extending the Java search scope.

The other supported action is:

• Open plugin.xml
  

You can download the plug-in here.

BTW this plug-in makes use of the technique described in the entry - Add pulldown actions to Eclipse View's Toolbars.

DISCLAIMER: This plug-in is experimental. So no guarantees. Use the plug-in at your own risk.