Icon
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Menu Name
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Description
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Cut |
Copy the selected components to the clipboard and remove them from the
design view. |
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Copy |
Copy the selected components to the clipboard. |
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Paste |
Paste the selected components from the clipboard |
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Delete |
Remove the selected components from the design view. |
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Test/Preview
|
Preview the window using a quick test mode. This is ideal for testing the
layout and resizing behavior of your components. |
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Rename |
Rename the selected components and/or convert them to fields or local
variables. New variable names may be generated from the text attribute
of the component. |
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Change Style > |
  Change
the style of
the selected components. |
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Template > |
 Save, Clear or Apply a
template to
the selected components. |
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Morph > |
 Morph the selected components into
another type. Similar component types are listed. Direct subclasses of
the select component may also be selected as can any other arbitrary
class. |
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Forms > |
  Toggle
painting borders and adapting controls in a Forms API layout. |
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Implement > |
Implement an event handler
for an event triggered by the selected component.. |
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Set
Layout >
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  Change
the layout of the selected container. |
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Delete Layout
|
Delete the current layout manager from the selected container. |
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Set Tab Order |
 Set the tab
order for the controls in the selected container.
If one or more controls in a container are selected, this command
will set the tab order of the container to the selection order of the
controls. |
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Flatten Hierarchy
>
|
  Flatten
the hierarchy of the selected Swing panel. The layout is converted to
null layout, all sub panels are removed and all widgets become children
of the selected panel. |
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Autosize Widget
|
Autosize the selected component (available for null layout, SWT FormLayout
and Swing SpringLayout) |
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Order > |
 Change
the relative z-order of the selected component. Bring the widget to the
front, send it to the back, bring it forward or send it backward. The
command applies to AbsoluteLayout only. |
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Expose Control
|
  Add a public
or protected accessor for the selected component. Components exposed in
superclasses or in
embedded panels can be selected and edited by the
user.
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Data Binding
Eclipse 3.3 only
|
 Quickly
create or edit data bindings for
a widget. If the widget does not have any data bindings, the menu
immediately cascades out to show the available properties of the widget
that can be bound to a model property. If the widget has existing data
bindings, those are shown at the top of the cascaded menu and a list of
widget properties is shown in a submenu. Clicking on an unbound property
will open the
Create Data
Binding wizard while clicking a bound property will open
the Edit Data Binding
dialog. |
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