Console Page Participants

Identifier:

org.eclipse.ui.console.consolePageParticipants

Since:

3.1

Description:

This extension point provides a mechanism for contributing a console page participant. A console page participant is notified of page lifecycle events such as creation, activation, deactivation and disposal. A page participant can also provide adapters for a page.

Configuration Markup:

<!ELEMENT extension (consolePageParticipant)>

<!ATTLIST extension

point CDATA #REQUIRED

id CDATA #IMPLIED

name CDATA #IMPLIED>

point - a fully qualified identifier of the target extension point
id - an optional identifier of the extension instance
name - an optional name of the extension instance

<!ELEMENT consolePageParticipant (enablement)>

<!ATTLIST consolePageParticipant

id CDATA #REQUIRED

class CDATA #REQUIRED>

id - specifies a unique identifier for this Console Page Participant
class - specifies a fully qualified name of a Java class that implements IConsolePageParticipant

Examples:

The following is an example of a console page participant extension point:


   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.console.consolePageParticipants">
      <consolePageParticipant
            class="com.example.ExamplePageParticipant"
            id="com.example.ExamplePageParticipant">
         <enablement>
            <instanceof value="com.example.ExampleConsole"/>
         </enablement>
      </consolePageParticipant>
   </extension>

In the above example, the contributed console page participant will be used for all consoles of type "com.example.ExampleConsole."

API Information:

Value of the attribute class must be a fully qualified name of a Java class that implements the interface org.eclipse.ui.console.IConsolePageParticipant.

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