Question

So I basically need to get key press up/down event from eclipse editor view. I googled it for couple hours but only found keypress events from shell (like in here). But this method do not work in/from editor view.
So maybe some one knows how to add keypress event listener in editor?

P.S. I’m using eclipse 4.2.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

I found the way (thanks guys in irc)

// ITextEditor editor;
((StyledText)editor.getAdapter(org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Control.class)).addKeyListener(new KeyListener() {

    @Override
    public void keyReleased(KeyEvent e) {
        System.out.println("key released");
    }

    @Override
    public void keyPressed(KeyEvent e) {
        System.out.println("key pressed ");
    }
});