Eclipse plug-in: add Launch command group to Custom Perspective

Question

I have looked for a lot of tutorials online and it is very difficult to find anything related to Launches.

I am implementing an IDE plug-in which implements a custom

Answer 1

You need to extend your perspective using org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions extension point. To add Run and Debug buttons add org.eclipse.debug.ui.launchActionSet actionSet like this:

   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
      <perspectiveExtension
            targetID="your.perspective.id">
         <actionSet
               id="org.eclipse.debug.ui.launchActionSet">
         </actionSet>
      </perspectiveExtension>
   </extension>