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Customize Package- or Project Explorer on a per-project base [message #1400620]

Mon, 14 July 2014 13:20

Till F.

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Registered: August 2012

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Hello,

I thought this would be a common problem, but oddly I couldn't find anything helpful.

I'm developing an Eclipse plugin with a custom nature. Projects having this nature should be visualized differently in the Package/Project Explorers by default, i.e. certain folders should be hidden when the nature is added (e.g. src-gen, META-INF).

I had hoped the Package- and/or Project Explorer would provide a decent mechanism to programmatically add filters for a certain project, but I couldn't find something like this. But it must be possible to customize at least the Project Explorer somehow, as some plugins like the C/C++ Development Tools even introduce non-standard icons for specific folders (or even show "virtual" folders)...

Could someone point me into the right direction? The regular filters that are accessible via the GUI always affect all projects in the whole workspace, thus I need a different approach.

Cheers,
Till

/edit: i searched a little bit more... please don't tell me that I have to write a custom navigator for my intend... this would be rather disproportional, wouldn't it?

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