Teams Winter 2011/team1/RCP/Define and use editors

1. Show Data in Application

1.1 Columns data in a JFace table can be hold in ModelProvider and it is defined via instances of TableViewerColumnobject:

viewer.setInput(ModelProvider.INSTANCE.getStudents());

and

TableViewerColumn col = createTableViewerColumn(titles[0], bounds[0], 0);

1.2 Add the following lines to StudentsView.java class:
Private variable:
private TableViewer viewer;
Change the createColumns()method:


   String[] titles = { "Id", "First name", "Last name", "Program" };

3. Define and Use Editors

3.1 Editor area

The first step to add editor area to the application is to make the editor area visible.

public class Perspective implements IPerspectiveFactory {

	public void createInitialLayout(IPageLayout layout) {
		
		layout.setEditorAreaVisible(true);
		layout.addView(StudentsView.ID, IPageLayout.LEFT, 1.0f, layout.getEditorArea());
		//make the view fixed
		layout.setFixed(true);
		//make the view non-closeable
		layout.getViewLayout(StudentsView.ID).setCloseable(false);
		
	}
}

3.1 Create editor

   String[] titles = { "Id", "First name", "Last name", "Program" };

3.2 Set command for opening the editor