Package org.eclipse.ui.intro.contentproviders

Class EclipseRSSViewer

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.ui.intro.contentproviders.EclipseRSSViewer

All Implemented Interfaces:

IIntroContentProvider

public class EclipseRSSViewer
extends Object
implements IIntroContentProvider

A content provider which allows a news reader to be included in dynamic intro content.

The id for the contentProvider tag must consist of the following attributes. Each of these attributes must be separated by '##'.

Attribute	Description
url	RSS news feed url
welcome_items	Number of news feed to be displayed
no_news_url	Alternative url for news feed
no_news_text	Text for the alternative url

For example:

 <contentProvider
 id="url=http://www.eclipse.org/home/eclipsenews.rss##welcome_items=5##no_news_url=http://www.eclipse.org/community/##no_news_text=Welcome to the Eclipse Community Page"
 pluginId="org.eclipse.ui.intro"
 class="org.eclipse.ui.intro.contentproviders.EclipseRSSViewer">
 </contentProvider>
 

Since:

3.4

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
EclipseRSSViewer()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	createContent(String id, PrintWriter out)	Create the html content for this newsreader
void	createContent(String id, Composite parent, FormToolkit toolkit)	Create widgets to display the newsreader when using the SWT presentation
void	dispose()	Dispose of the ContentProvider.
void	init(IIntroContentProviderSite site)	Initialize the content provider

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

EclipseRSSViewer

public EclipseRSSViewer()

Method Detail

init

public void init(IIntroContentProviderSite site)

Initialize the content provider

Specified by:

init in interface IIntroContentProvider

Parameters:

site - an object which allows rcontainer reflows to be requested

createContent

public void createContent(String id,
                          PrintWriter out)

Create the html content for this newsreader

Specified by:

createContent in interface IIntroContentProvider

Parameters:

id - the unique identifier of the content element. The same content provider class can be reused for several elements and the id can be used to tell them apart.

out - a writer where the html will be written

createContent

public void createContent(String id,
                          Composite parent,
                          FormToolkit toolkit)

Create widgets to display the newsreader when using the SWT presentation

Specified by:

createContent in interface IIntroContentProvider

Parameters:

id - the unique identifier of the content element

parent - the parent composite that should be used when creating SWT widgets

toolkit - the form toolkit that should be used when creating new widgets

dispose

public void dispose()

Description copied from interface: IIntroContentProvider

Dispose of the ContentProvider. This will only be called when the Intro view is closed. In other words, the content provider will not be disposed of until the last possible minute. This gives the implementor the chance to cache content and avoid regenerating content on every page switch.

Specified by:

dispose in interface IIntroContentProvider