Preferences Preference pages will be appear Window>Preferences dialog. It can be used to configure different features from once place. Eclipse Preferences is kind of registry of configurations. e.g.: As you see here are the various configuration ( preferences ) for Java, Ant, etc. Sample Preference in Eclipse org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages extension has to be added to in the plug-in manifest editor for Preference Pages. Extension point for PreferencePages Once you add the extension, the following will be the structure: Extensions post adding PreferencePages Following is the implementation of SamplePreferencePage.java SamplePreferencePage.java package trial . preferences ; import org . eclipse . jface . preference . BooleanFieldEditor ; import org . eclipse . jface . preference . DirectoryFieldEditor ; import org . eclipse . jface . preference . FieldEditorPreferencePage ; import org . eclip
In this blog I'll demonstrate how to implement few very basic application functionalities in Eclipse RCP.