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What can the WTP Snippets View do for me?

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What is it?

A view for holding scraps of text that you want to use and reuse by dragging them into your favorite editors or at the push of a button.

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What can I do with it?

Add your own drawers and items, showing, (auto) hiding, and arranging them however you please

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What can I do with it?

Drag and drop text into your favorite editors in Europa

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What can I do with it?

Define variables to be filled in during the drop

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How do I add my own items?

• Customizer dialog, from the context menu• Quick Paste as Snippet context menu action• Add to Snippets context menu action in selected

editors

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So is there an extension point I can use?

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YES!

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What can you do with the extension point?

• Add drawers and items, controlling when they’re visible

• Set variables for the users to fill in

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What can you do with the extension point?

• Contributed items use the ISnippetInsertion interface Control the behavior during push-button insertion Control the behavior when dropped using a custom SWT

Transfer Type.

Redefine the entire UI, including custom dialogs, wizards…the sky’s the limit.

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How do I get it?

• WTP builds http://download.eclipse.org/webtools/downloads

• Europa for Java EE http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/jee.php

• As a proposed Expanded Download http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_Expanded_Downloads

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