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Bug 317265

Summary: Eclipse RCP Templates
Product: [Eclipse Project] PDE Reporter: Lars Vogel <Lars.Vogel>
Component: UIAssignee: PDE-UI-Inbox <pde-ui-inbox>
Status: CLOSED INVALID QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: Lars.Vogel, ralf, remy.suen
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Whiteboard:

Description Lars Vogel CLA 2010-06-18 02:21:53 EDT 
Would you consider a patch which adds a commands (and menu) to the "Hello RCP" template? 

This would make my life in writing my Eclipse RCP Tutorial http://www.vogella.de/articles/RichClientPlatform/article.html (and the life of new Eclipse learner) much easier as the learner could skip the repetitive creation of commands and menus.

My preference could be a simple command and menu entry which open a dialog which says "Hello RCP". 

If you indicate that you would consider such a patch, I would provide it.
Comment 1 Prakash Rangaraj CLA 2010-06-18 04:23:19 EDT 
Lars,
   The Hello RCP serves as a minimalistic template. A better way is to create a template for your tutorial by extending PDE's extension point and distribute it as a plugin
Comment 2 Ralf Ebert CLA 2010-06-18 05:12:13 EDT 
One way to do this with keeping the "minimalistic template" aspect would be to create a default menu like:

File: Close, Save, Exit
Edit: Undo, Redo, Cut, Copy, Paste, Delete
Window: Reset Perspective
Help: Help Contents, Search, About

Such a menu is created for pretty much every RCP application, so it would make sense to have it even in the most basic template.
Comment 3 Lars Vogel CLA 2010-06-19 06:46:46 EDT 
@Prakash would you consider a minimal "Hello RCP Command" template? 

@Ralf: If you feel that you want to full featured template can you please open another bug? This bug is for having a minimal command exmaple.
Comment 4 Lars Vogel CLA 2012-02-27 03:50:46 EST 
With Eclipse 4, I don't think we need better Eclipse 3.x templates. Closing as invalid.