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| Contributing to the </h1> |
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| How Views and editors can use the properties view to show and edit properties of |
| the current selection</h3></center> |
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| <blockquote><b>Summary</b> |
| <br>Most editors and views have |
| the concept of a current selection. It is often useful to display information, |
| or properties, about this selection. Rather than have each editor or view |
| provide its own custom way of displaying properties, the Workbench provides a |
| properties view that can listen for the selection of the currently active |
| part, and then display and possibly edit its properties. In this article we'll |
| take a look at how a tool contributes to the properties view, and various ways |
| of adapting its model to provide the required interfaces.</blockquote> |
| <b>By <a href="mailto:jamsden@us.ibm.com">Jim Amsden</a></b> |
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| Conclusion</h3> |
| This article explained the importance of change notification in the Eclipse |
| platform and the challenges of doing it with so many different aspects |
| of the platform. It ain't pretty, but it works. If you have a better idea, |
| we would definitely like to hear it. |
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