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| <h1>Tabbed Property View Evaluation Guide</h1> |
| <h2>1.0 Introduction</h2> |
| <p>The Common UI Properties feature provides a set of extension points and supporting framework to implement a |
| tabbed UI for the Eclipse properties view.</p> |
| <h2>2.0 Getting Started</h2> |
| <p>The com.ibm.xtools.common.ui.properties plug-in defines the following three extension points:</p> |
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| <li>The property contributor extension point describes a set of workbench parts that are contributors of |
| properties to be displayed within tabs in the properties view. <br> |
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| <li>The property tabs extension point describes a list of tabs that will be contributed to the properties view.<br> |
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| <li>The property sections extension point describes a list of sections to be displayed within tabs that will be |
| contributed to the property view. A section is a class that adds a set of widgets to a tab based on element |
| selection and filtering. The sections are created using the Eclipse UI forms toolkit.<br> |
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| <h2>3.0 Example</h2> |
| <p>Below is an example snapshot of a usage of the tabbed properties view. The properties view is displaying four |
| tabs based on the selected element. The General tab is currently selected. This implementation has provided a standard |
| label provider so that a title bar is displayed with the element icon and text.</p> |
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| <h2>4.0 Provide Feedback to Us</h2> |
| <p>We encourage development/design feed back on the <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-dev">wtp-dev</a> |
| mailing list. You can subscribe to the list via <a href="https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/wtp-dev">this link</a>.<br> |
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| For usage questions, discussion of bugs, and strange behaviour please post to the eclipse.webtools newsgroup. |
| Information on the Web Tools Platform newsgroup can be found <a href="http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index.html">here</a>.</p> |
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