Question

Basically, I have an eclipse plug-in which, among other things, adds three tabs to the Properties View, by using the extension points provided by eclipse (org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyContributor, org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyTabs and org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertySections).

I am creating a plug-in to add a new tab (and some different properties) (see image).

Can you please give me some indications on how to do this, considering that there are no extension points offered by this plug-in for this. Is it possible to create a new tab by using the extension points provided by eclipse (mentioned above) in such a way that my tab appears under the three already added?
(I am pretty new in the plug-in area… all the tutorials I found showed how to create some tabs from scratch, where there is nothing added in the Properties View already).

Many thanks!

Answer 1

Here is the solution I found so far (I still need to explore it a bit more – I might be able to add some more details):

• I created a fragment – the trick with the fragment is to either set the “host plugin” the RCP plugin or, if you set the “host plugin” a different plugin than the RCP, but which is in the Dependencies list of the RCP, you have to export the product first; don’t forget to include the fragment in the Dependencies list of the product.
• I extended the plugin org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyTabs and set the same contributorId as in the original plugin (the one with the 3 tabs) and created my new tab (“My Tab” in the image)
• I created the sections I needed for this tab, again setting the same contributorId