Deba Eclipse Utility Plugin

Introduction

This is a small eclipse utility plugin developed by Debadatta Mishra.
It is helpful for java development using Eclipse IDE in Windows OS to speed up the development activities. This plugin can be considered as a tutorial towards Eclipse Plugin Development.
It has the following features.

Features

This plugin is associated other plugins like screenshot and split editor plugin. All these plugins comprises the following features.
Copy File Path (Windows Style , Multi Selection)

Copy File Path (Unix Style , Multi Selection)

Copy Files and Folders to ClipBoard (Multi Selection)

Open in Windows Command Prompt (Multi Selection)

Open Command Prompt in Eclipse Console

Open in Windows Explorer (Multi Selection)

Full Screen with and without status line bar

Shortcut for Windows Command Prompt from Eclipse console

Send Files to Desktop

Zip files and send to Desktop

Capture screenshot and save to Desktop

Split Eclipse Text Editor

System view and Kill a Process Id

Preferences for Utilities

Installation

Before proceeding for the installation, go through the silent video in youtube.
Youtube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZ3dJBlYHGA

Copy the following update site to install in Eclipse.

Eclipse Update site : https://sourceforge.net/projects/debaeclipseutil/files/update/
It is always recommended to install the plugin using the update site.

You can download the following zip file to install locally in eclipse.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/debaeclipseutil/files/com.ddlab.rnd.tornado.eclipse.util.update.zip/download

In case of any problem you have to restart the eclipse editor. It is considered as one of the best practices to always start the eclipse with -clean option only after installing any plugin.

Screenshots

Have look at the following screenshot.

Download

You can download the source code by visiting the following sites.
Bitbucket
https://bitbucket.org/debajava/com.ddlab.rnd.tornado.eclipse.util
Github
https://github.com/debjava/com.ddlab.rnd.tornado.eclipse.util
sourceforge
http://sourceforge.net/projects/debaeclipseutil/files/sources/com.ddlab.rnd.tornado.eclipse.util.zip/download

Eclipse Util Plugin

Download the zip file debaeclipseutilplugin.zip and extract it to a suitable folder and copy the jar file and place it inside the dropins folder of your Eclipse Installation directory. This eclipse plugin work for all the versions of Eclipse except Eclipse 3.0, Eclipse 3.1 and Eclipse 3.2.

Eclipse Screenshot Util Plugin for (Ganymede,Galileo,Helios,Indigo)

If your using Ganymede,Galileo,Helios or Indigo version of Eclipse, Go to External links and click on Download the zip file screenshotutil-ganymede2indigo.zip. Place the jar file in the directory dropins directory of your Eclipse installation directory. This is the utility plugin for taking screenshot from the eclipse editor and to split the Eclipse Text Editor.

Eclipse Screenshot Util Plugin for (Eclipse Kepler)

If your using Eclipse Kepler (Latest), Download the zip file screenshotutil-kepler.zip. Place the jar file in the directory dropins directory of your Eclipse installation directory. This is the utility plugin for taking screenshot from the eclipse editor .
Download from DropBox

If you face any problem while downloading the above mentioned jar files, you can download from DropBox from the below mentioned links.

Download Util Plugin

Download ScreenShot Plugin for Ganymede-Indigo

Download Screenshot Plugin for Kepler

Limitations

Full Screen Utility will not work for Eclipse Juno

Split Editor Functionality will not work for Eclipse Juno and Eclipse Kepler

All these plugins will only work for Eclipse in Windows OS with Java Version 1.6 or more

Conclusion

I have developed this plugin to minimize the development activities to some extent not to a larger extent. This Eclipse plugin can be considered as a tutorial towards Eclipse Plugin Development. You can look into source code hosted in this site. I am very much thankful to my parents, my brothers and my wife for their cooperation for my RnD. For any kind of suggestions or issues contact me at debadatta.mishra@gmail.com .

[Debadatta Mishra]

Debadatta Mishra