Plugin Spy

3.1. Plugin Spy for UI parts

The Plugin Spy gives you easily information about the running UI. Press Alt+Shift+F1 to get information about the current running Eclipse plugin / data types / screen. This way you can get immediately access to the plugin which is currently running.

Click on the active class or the contributing plugin to get to the class or the source code of the class.

3.2. Plugin Spy for menus

Press "Alt + Shift + F2" and select a menu to see who is contributing this menu.

Tip

To use the Eclipse Plugin Spy in your Eclipse RCP application include the plugin "org.eclipse.pde.runtime" into your application.

3.3. SWT spy

SWT spy for Eclipse is a tool that prints out information about the widget under the cursor. Currently, this includes style, layout and parent information.