I have changed some resource. When I click on it in Eclipse I get info "Resource is out of sync". How can I refresh it? I tried org.eclipse.core.resources.IResource.touch(IProgressMonitor), but it ...

A qustion about Eclipse PDE development: I write a small plugin for Eclipse and have the following * an org.eclipse.ui.texteditor.ITextEditor * a line number How can I automatically jump to that l...

I need to add a pulldown button to a view's toolbar in an Eclipse plugin. Actually buttons in the toolbar are added like that : <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.viewActions"> <viewContr...

I am currently using PDE build in headless mode to build my OSGI Bundle project. The PDE Antrunner task uses an Eclipse installation and I am just pointing it to my local Eclipse installation. un...

One of my Eclipse plug-ins (OSGi bundles) is supposed to contain a directory (Database Elements) of .sql files. My build.properties shows: bin.includes = META-INF/,\ .,\ Database Elements/ (.....

I'm wondering how to make a really read only eclipse editor.. My editor extends TextEditor, so when I reimplement method isEditable to always return false. It's the easiest way, which prevents us...

I need to use JUnit 4.4 (or newer) in a set of eclipse plugin tests, but I've run into the following problem: Tests are not detected when running with the junit 4.4 or 4.5 bundles from springsourc...

I'm developing an Eclipse plug-in, based on a bunch of core Eclipse plug-ins like SWT, JDT, GEF and others. I need my plug-in to be compatible with Eclipse 3.3, since many potential customers are...

I am developing an Eclipse feature consisting of several Eclipse plugins, using Equinox Declarative Services (DS) to wire the plugins together at runtime. I would like to add integration tests to v...

I developed one plugin(RMP) in eclipse 3.3.2 where i am creating menu items dynamically. I ran the application and it is working fine and am able to see the menu items created dynamically. Now I e...

I'm developing an editor plugin for eclipse. It works fine on files within eclipse projects, but when an external file is opened via the "File -> Open File" menu (which works file with, e.g. Java f...

I have a view which would like to be notified about all the currently opened editors. Where can I add a listener to achieve this? I was expecting WorkbenchPage or EditorManager to have some approp...

I've added the following new Eclipse template via extension point. It simply adds a template for a sample testTag tag. <!-- Add code template --> <extension point="org.eclipse.ui.editors....

In order to open a modal dialog, you need to pass a parent window, and pass the necessary flags for the dialog to be modal of course. Depending on where you are in the eclipse infrastructure, find...

Say you have an eclipse plugin with various views, these views should display data from some OSGi bundle that pushes data to the Views. Rather than have every view communicate with the OSGi bundle,...