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<cheatsheet title="Create a plug-in">

   <intro href="/org.eclipse.platform.doc.user/reference/ref-cheatsheets.htm">

      <description>

         This cheat sheet will demonstrate how to configure PDE and use it 

         to create, modify and test a plug-in. 

         <br/>

         <br/>

         To learn more about using cheat sheets, click the help button

         in the top right corner (?).

      </description>

   </intro>

   <item title="Configure PDE" dialog="true" skip="false" href="/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tools/views/views.htm">

      <description>

         To configure PDE, perform the following steps

      </description>

      <subitem label="Select &quot;Window-&gt;Open Perspective-&gt;Other...&quot; from the main menu and choose &quot;Plug-in Development&quot; in order to open the plug-in development perspective" skip="false">

         <command

               confirm="false"

               required="false"

               translate=""

               serialization="org.eclipse.ui.perspectives.showPerspective(org.eclipse.ui.perspectives.showPerspective.perspectiveId=org.eclipse.pde.ui.PDEPerspective)">

         </command>

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select &quot;Window-&gt;Preferences&quot; from the main menu, expand the &quot;Plug-in Development&quot; outline tree node within the resulting dialog, and choose &quot;Target Platform&quot;." skip="false">

         <command

               confirm="false"

               required="false"

               translate=""

               serialization="org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.pde.ui.TargetPlatformPreferencePage)">

         </command>

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Verify that the &quot;Target Definitions:&quot; check box list has one Target Platform selected as active." skip="true">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select the Active Target Platform, Click Edit and verify that all checkboxes corresponding to plug-in entries listed in the list box on the &quot;Content&quot; tab are checked." skip="true">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Click &quot;OK&quot;." skip="false">

      </subitem>

   </item>

   <item title="Create the plug-in" dialog="true" skip="false" href="/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tools/project_wizards/new_plugin_project.htm">

      <description>

         To create the plug-in perform the following steps

      </description>

      <subitem label="Select &quot;File-&gt;New-&gt;Project...&quot; from the main menu, expand the &quot;Plug-in Development&quot; category within the resulting &quot;New Project&quot; dialog box, and choose &quot;Plug-in Project&quot;" skip="false">

         <command

               confirm="false"

               required="false"

               translate=""

               serialization="org.eclipse.ui.newWizard(newWizardId=org.eclipse.pde.ui.NewProjectWizard)">

         </command>

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Input &quot;com.example.helloworld&quot; into the &quot;Project Name&quot; text box" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Accept the rest of the default preloaded values on the &quot;Plug-in Project&quot; page and click &quot;Next &gt;&quot;" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Accept the default preloaded values on the &quot;Plug-in Content&quot; page and click &quot;Next &gt;&quot;" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select the &quot;Hello, World&quot; template from the list of &quot;Available Templates&quot; and click &quot;Finish&quot;" skip="false">

      </subitem>

   </item>

   <item title="Modify the plug-in" dialog="false" skip="false" href="/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tools/editors/manifest_editor/extensions.htm">

      <description>

         After the new plug-in project wizard is finished from the previous step,

         the plug-in editor is launched for your new project with the <b>Overview</b>

         page showing.

         <br/>

         <br/>

         To modify your <b>com.example.helloworld</b> plug-in, perform the

         following steps:

      </description>

      <subitem label="Select the &quot;Extensions&quot; tab" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Expand the &quot;org.eclipse.ui.actionSets&quot; tree dialog under the &quot;All Extensions&quot; heading" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Expand the &quot;Sample Action Set&quot; tree dialog" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select the &quot;Sample Menu&quot; entry" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Replace the content of the &quot;label&quot; text box under the &quot;Extension Element Details&quot; heading with &quot;Hello!&quot;" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select the &quot;Sample Action&quot; entry under the &quot;All Extensions&quot; heading" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Replace the content of the &quot;label&quot; text box under the &quot;Extension Element Details&quot; heading with &quot;Display Hello World!&quot;" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select &quot;File-&gt;Save&quot; from the main menu" skip="false">

      </subitem>

   </item>

   <item title="Test the plug-in" dialog="false" skip="false" href="/org.eclipse.pde.doc.user/guide/tools/launchers/eclipse_application_launcher.htm">

      <description>

         To test your Eclipse plug-in inside a target Eclipse platform,

         perform the following steps:

      </description>

      <subitem label="Select the &quot;Overview&quot; tab" skip="false">

         <command

               confirm="false"

               required="false"

               translate=""

               serialization="org.eclipse.ui.navigate.openResource(filePath=/com.example.helloworld/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF)">

         </command>

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Click the &quot;Launch an Eclipse application&quot; hyperlink under the &quot;Testing&quot; heading" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Note the &quot;Hello!&quot; entry in the main menu in the newly launched Eclipse platform" skip="true">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select &quot;Hello!-&gt;Display Hello World!&quot; from the main menu" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Click on the &quot;Workbench&quot;  icon to close the &quot;Welcome&quot; view and go to the Eclipse workbench." skip="true">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Note the icon with the Eclipse logo in the main toolbar in the newly launched Eclipse platform" skip="true">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Click the icon with the Eclipse logo in the main toolbar" skip="false">

      </subitem>

      <subitem label="Select &quot;File-&gt;Exit&quot; from the main menu to exit the target Eclipse platform" skip="false">

      </subitem>

   </item>

</cheatsheet>