Eclipse RCP Tutorial: How to Add a Progress Bar

This tutorial is about eclipse Job and it consists two parts. The first part introduces how to make a progress bar by using a simple example. The second part briefly illustrates Eclipse Job for background processing. 1. A Simple Example of Progress Bar in Eclipse Suppose you have a working RCP application with a sample … Read more

Eclipse RCP: Relation between Window, Perspective, View, etc.

This Diagram is from Addison Wesley’s “Eclipse Rich Client Platform 2nd Edition”. It demonstrates the relations between window, menu, perspective, views, etc. In brief, window is the whole application view and it has one page. The page has its own editor and view instances, and uses the perspective to determine its layout. A view is … Read more