Recipe 2.12 Displaying More Resource Information with Icons

2.12.1 Problem

You want to turn on label decorators to get additional information about icons and buttons.

2.12.2 Solution

Select Window Preferences Workbench Label Decorations.

2.12.3 Discussion

Label decorations augment the standard Eclipse icons displayed in various views. For example, if you archive a code file in a CVS repository and have label decorations turned on, the file's icon displays a small gold cylinder that isn't there otherwise.

To turn on label decorations, select Window Preferences Workbench Label Decorations, and select which decoration you want to use, as shown in Figure 2-10.

Figure 2-10. Selecting label decorations

We're going to use label decorations with Eclipse and CVS in Chapter 6. Once you've turned on label decorations, you can see at a glance which files have been stored in the CVS repository.

2.12.4 See Also

Recipe 6.6 on labeling files using version control.