Example - Multi-page Editor
Introduction
The Multi Page Editor Example adds an editor for files with the .mpe
extension. It shows how to create an editor that uses multiple pages by
defining both an editor and a page contributor that can add entries to
an action bar.
Running the example
To start using the Multi-page Editor Example, create a new file with .mpe
extension. Select the file, bring up the popup menu, select the Open
With menu and from the sub-menu select the Multi Page Editor Example menu
item. You can then select the different editors by selecting the different
tabs.
Creating a new mpe file
Create a new file with file extension .mpe. From the File menu, select
New and then select Other... from the sub-menu. Click on Simple in
the wizard, then select
File in the list on the left. Click on Next to supply the file
name (make sure the extension is .mpe) and the folder in which the file
should be contained.
Details
The Multi Page Editor Example demonstrates how to create an multi
page editor with a custom page contributor.
The Multi Page Editor Example is constructed with two extensions - a
document contributor (MultiPageContributor) and an editor (MultiPageEditor).
The document contributor is a subclass of org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorActionBarContributor
and defines the actions that are added to an editor when the setActivePage
method is called. The editor is an org.eclipse.ui.part.MultiPageEditorPart
that creates 3 pages whose activation is handled by the pageChange
method that in turn sends setActivePage
to the contributor. These two classes do not refer to each other directly
- the contributor for the editor is set using the contributorClass tag
in the plugin.xml