Forms DetailsPage Wizard

Subclasses of the Eclipse Forms DetailsPage class can be created using the Forms DetailsPage wizard. The wizard can be selected from the drop down Designer wizard menu or from the Eclipse New wizard. To use the wizard, select the project source folder and package to contain the class. Then enter the class name and hit the Finish button. For more information on using Eclipse Forms, see the Eclipse Forms Programming Guide.

The wizard generates the following code.

import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelection;

import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;

import org.eclipse.swt.layout.FillLayout;

import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.IDetailsPage;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.IFormPart;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.IManagedForm;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.ExpandableComposite;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormToolkit;

import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.Section;

 

public class FormsDetailsPage implements IDetailsPage {

    private IManagedForm managedForm;

    public FormsDetailsPage() {

    }

    public void initialize(IManagedForm managedForm) {

        this.managedForm = managedForm;

    }

    public void createContents(Composite parent) {

        FormToolkit toolkit = managedForm.getToolkit();

        parent.setLayout(new FillLayout());

        final Section section = toolkit.createSection(parent,

            ExpandableComposite.EXPANDED | ExpandableComposite.TITLE_BAR);

        section.setText("Empty Section");

 

        final Composite composite = 

            toolkit.createComposite(section, SWT.NONE);

        toolkit.paintBordersFor(composite);

        section.setClient(composite);

    }

    public void dispose() {

    }

    public void setFocus() {

    }

    private void update() {

    }

    public boolean setFormInput(Object input) {

        return false;

    }

    public void selectionChanged(IFormPart part, ISelection selection) {

        IStructuredSelection structuredSelection = 

            (IStructuredSelection) selection;

        update();

    }

    public void commit(boolean onSave) {

    }

    public boolean isDirty() {

        return false;

    }

    public boolean isStale() {

        return false;

    }

    public void refresh() {

        update();

    }

}

When editing Eclipse Forms DetailsPages, a set of specialized Eclipse Forms widgets is available with their own unique widget palette. These widgets provide the "flat" look that is a signature element of the Eclipse Forms API. Standard widgets and layout managers can also be used although they won't use the flat look.