The implementation of the “Ctrl+3″ popup was an undisputed enhancement for more usability. It enables a much faster navigation through all the browsable items you may have in your Workbench. A much more interesting topic is how to adopt this widget in order to be extended, restricted and customized. This is especially usefull for RCP Development to hide and add elements. However, there is currently no way to customize the contents of the quick access popup.
The following article provides instructions for an implementation of a fully customizable popup with the known behaviour. The content is contributed using an extra Extension-Point (no bundle-activation required).

Usage

I have implemented a small bundle with an Extension-Point definition that allows you to create a custom popup with the content other plug-ins contribute using Extension-Point. The implementation is as easy as defining a new command. Just create a new category or a new element in your plugin.xml and that’s it. Unfortunately the code for creating the popup is copied from the platform, see Bug 162006 and Bug 204356.

Screenshots

Downloads

Download the Example as RCP (12 Mbyte - Source included)
Download the Bundle (50 Kbyte - Source included)
CVS-Checkout (more info)

• de.spiritlink.quickaccess
• de.spiritlink.quickaccess.rcp