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Thanks to our men in Zürich we now have a reusable control that can be embedded into Wizard pages/arbitrary dialogs that allows addition of resources or generic IAdaptables to a collection of working working sets. This means that we can FINALLY put an end to the deluge of bugs that (correctly) complain about how new resources don’t automatically appear in working sets. There is still a bit of behaviour that may need tweaking with this implementation (adding to working sets as a default action for instance) but the API is in pretty stable shape and we would appreciate any feedback you could give.

The implementation for this feature can be found in org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.WorkingSetConfigurationBlock and org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.WorkingSetGroup. The first class is the meat of the API and provides a reusable control for selecting the working sets. The second class simply wraps the first in an SWT group control with a standardized label.

Here’s what the API looks like in our plain old generic New Project wizard: