Question

I am developing a simple plugin for eclipse where I want to detect what the user (who is opening a project file and typing in an editor) is typing. So far I have got the current workbench, currently active editor and the property changes made to the editor using the IPropertyListener; but I am repeatedly failing to detect whether any key is pressed or not.

the code:

       IWorkbench wb = PlatformUI.getWorkbench();
       IWorkbenchWindow win = wb.getActiveWorkbenchWindow();
       IWorkbenchPage page = win.getActivePage();
       System.out.println
               ("Yeah the editor is visible..." + page.isEditorAreaVisible() + "with ..." +     page.toString() );
       IEditorPart theEditor =  page.getActiveEditor() ;  

       IPropertyListener myPropL = new IPropertyListener() 
       {


        @Override
        public void propertyChanged(Object arg0, int arg1) 
        {
            // TODO Auto-generated method stub

            System.out.println("This is : " + arg0.toString()   );

        }
    };


        theEditor.addPropertyListener(myPropL); 

Answer 1

I fixed it by myself.

This is the solution :

1. get the IDocumentListener using IDocumentListener lr = new IDocumentListener()

2. Override the documentChanged(DocumentEvent arg0) and use the arg0 parameter to get the typed text and the typed key using arg0.offset.

For further questions happy to help 🙂