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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> |
| <ul><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><br> |
| <li>The property tabs extension point describes a list of tabs that will be contributed to the properties view.<br><br> |
| <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><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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