Question

I’m writing a plugin for Eclipse that collects some data from the project that’s currently opened and from current selection and I want to let the user open the File Search window that comes with Eclipse by double-clicking some of the data shown.

Ideally “Containing text” will be set to the data the user double-clicked, “Regular expression” unchecked, “File name patterns” set to “.” and “Scope” set to “Workspace”

Is there a way to show the Eclipse File Search dialog from my code?

Answer 1

Found the answer at:

http://bassistance.de/2009/11/17/eclipse-dev-custom-search-page

boils down to:

NewSearchUI.runQueryInBackground(TextSearchQueryProvider.getPreferred().createQu‌​ery(idText.getText()));