How to create a new View

1. Add “org.eclipse.core.resources” in “Dependencies” tab in plugin.xml file.

Add Dependencies

2. Add new extension point “org.eclipse.ui.views” in “Extensions” tab.
3. Right click on this extension point and select “New -> category”. Provide the details of id* and name* of this element.

Add new category for View

4. Right click on “org.eclipse.ui.views” extension and select “New -> view”. A new View element will be created. Now provide the details of this element. Id*: should be unique. Give the view name in name* filed. Give the full qualified name of the class in class* filed. Provide the same category id in category: field.
5. Optionally, you can add icon for this view by providing the relative name of an icon file in icon: field.  Add .gif or .png file in your icons folder (create a new folder called “icons” under the plug-in project) with file size 16X16.

Add new icon file in project

6. Other field’s values can keep as it is (default values).

Add new View

7. Click on “class*” to create a new class and click “Finish” (as of now keep all default settings).

Create a new class for View

8. Now we created a blank view.
9. To show this view in our own perspective, go to our own perspectiveExtension and right click on it and select “New -> view”.

Add new "view" under "perspectiveExtensions"

10. Give the same id of your newly created view under “org.eclipse.ui.views” extension point into this id* field.
11. The field “relationship*” field is for specify the relationship between id and relative. For put the your view as a stack relationship with “Project Explorer” view, put the value of relationship field as “stack” and relative: field should be the id of Project Explorer view id i.e. “org.eclipse.ui.navigator.ProjectExplorer”.

Note: To find the existing View ID, go to the IPageLayout.class file. For Editor Area, the ID of editor is “org.eclipse.ui.editorss”.

12. Provide the ratio value as “0%” to “100%” w.r.t. editor area. For reference see this figure below:

Ratio calculation with respect to Editor Area

13. Other parameter you can keep it default value.

Add existing "view" in perspective

14. Now everything is done. Run the project and you can see this View in left side of an editor area in your perspective.

Show "My Perspective" with newly created "Sample View"

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Additional Note:
To track the Error, modify the "SampleView.java" file using this following code:


package samplecode.source;

import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IStatus;
import org.eclipse.core.runtime.Status;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.ui.part.ViewPart;

import samplecode.Activator;

public class SampleView extends ViewPart {

public SampleView() {
Activator
.getDefault()
.getLog()
.log(new Status(IStatus.ERROR, Activator.PLUGIN_ID, SWT.OK,
"Excaption occured.", null));
}

@Override
public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
}

@Override
public void setFocus() {
}

}