The eclipse FullScreen plugin

2009-June-13 by Michael Scharf

Update/Download

You can use this site as update site or download the plugin from here: gr.scharf.fullscreen.zip

The source can be found at the eclipse-helpers project at sourceforge: https://eclipse-helpers.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/eclipse-helpers/fullscreen-commands

The plugin has been written for eclipse 3.5 but it works also for eclipse 3.4 although there are some problems with the handling of the toggle state of the commands...

Functionality

The plugin adds a Fullscreen command to the Windows menu and a Keybinding M3+F11 which translates on windows to Alt+F11:

When fullscreen mode is active all (main) windows are in full screen mode:

There is also a Toolbar button that can be enabled. Because the plugin uses the Commands Framework there are some unfortunate restrictions (bug 280033):

When you go to Window->Customize Perspective->Tool Bar Visibility, you will not find the Fullscreen tool bar unless you have enabled it in Window->Customize Perspective->Command Groups Availability:
The Toolbar details are empty, although the toolbar contains a command:

Once you have succeeded enabling the toolbar button, it will look like this:

and

I decided to hide the button by default, because in most cases the shortcut and the windows menu command should be enough.