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Create a new project "de.vogella.rcp.intro.forms" (see Eclipse RCP Tutorial for details). Use the "RCP Application with a view" as a template.

Add a dependency to "org.eclipse.ui.forms" in plugin.xml. You do this via selecting the tab "Dependencies". Press the "Add" button and type in the name of "org.eclipse.ui.forms".

Change the View.java to the following. This will create a re-sizable table in a form with a button on the right side of it.

			
package de.vogella.rcp.intro.forms;

import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredContentProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ITableLabelProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.LabelProvider;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.TableViewer;
import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Image;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridData;
import org.eclipse.swt.layout.GridLayout;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Button;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Table;
import org.eclipse.ui.ISharedImages;
import org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI;
import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormToolkit;
import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.Section;
import org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart;

public class View extends ViewPart {
	public static final String ID = "de.vogella.rcp.intro.forms.view";

	private TableViewer viewer;

	class ViewContentProvider implements IStructuredContentProvider {
		public void inputChanged(Viewer v, Object oldInput, Object newInput) {
		}

		public void dispose() {
		}

		public Object[] getElements(Object parent) {
			return new String[] { "One", "Two", "Three" };
		}
	}

	class ViewLabelProvider extends LabelProvider implements
			ITableLabelProvider {
		public String getColumnText(Object obj, int index) {
			return getText(obj);
		}

		public Image getColumnImage(Object obj, int index) {
			return getImage(obj);
		}

		public Image getImage(Object obj) {
			return PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getSharedImages().getImage(
					ISharedImages.IMG_OBJ_ELEMENT);
		}
	}

	/**
	 * This is a callback that will allow us to create the viewer and initialize
	 * it.
	 */
	public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
		FormToolkit toolkit = new FormToolkit(parent.getDisplay());
		// Lets make a layout for the first section of the screen
		GridLayout layout = new GridLayout();
		layout.numColumns = 1;
		layout.marginWidth = 2;
		layout.marginHeight = 2;
		// Creating the Screen
		Section section = toolkit.createSection(parent, Section.DESCRIPTION
				| Section.TITLE_BAR);
		section.setText("Section 1 for demonstration"); //$NON-NLS-1$
		section.setDescription("This demonstrates the usage of section");
		// Composite for storing the data
		Composite client = toolkit.createComposite(section, SWT.WRAP);
		layout = new GridLayout();
		layout.numColumns = 2;
		layout.marginWidth = 2;
		layout.marginHeight = 2;
		client.setLayout(layout);
		Table t = toolkit.createTable(client, SWT.NULL);
		GridData gd = new GridData(GridData.FILL_BOTH);
		gd.heightHint = 20;
		gd.widthHint = 100;
		t.setLayoutData(gd);
		toolkit.paintBordersFor(client);
		Button b = toolkit.createButton(client, "Do something", SWT.PUSH); //$NON-NLS-1$
		gd = new GridData(GridData.VERTICAL_ALIGN_BEGINNING);
		b.setLayoutData(gd);
		section.setClient(client);
		viewer = new TableViewer(t);

		viewer.setContentProvider(new ViewContentProvider());
		viewer.setLabelProvider(new ViewLabelProvider());
		viewer.setInput(getViewSite());
	}

	/**
	 * Passing the focus request to the viewer's control.
	 */
	public void setFocus() {
		viewer.getControl().setFocus();
	}
}

		

The result should look like the following:

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