Question

I writing my own text editor plugin for eclipse. I am now working on my own formatter. Actually, following that link http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_support_formatting_in_my_editor%3F.
I have written my Strategy, I have overridden getContentFormatter in my SourceViewerConfiguration..

As I run my plugin and press Ctrl+Shift+F – and nothing happens.

I think that I’m missing a step here. Should I create a handler or something?

Thanks

Answer 1

What helped me. I have created a handler with the following executors body:

//get the editorPart    
if (editorPart != null) {
                ITextOperationTarget target = (ITextOperationTarget) editorPart
                        .getAdapter(ITextOperationTarget.class);
                if (target instanceof ISourceViewer) {
                    ISourceViewer textViewer = (ISourceViewer) target;
                    ((ITextOperationTarget) textViewer)
                            .doOperation(ISourceViewer.FORMAT);
                }
            }

Then just create menu items and bind them to the handler.