RCML - Rich Client Markup Language

Starting Background Job

The following snippet shows the definition of a background job that is implemented in JavaScript. The RCP Action (IAction) is also implemented in JavaScript and starts the job.

...
<job id="test_job" name="Doing something..." modal="true">
   <![CDATA[

    monitor.beginTask("Processing...", nsteps);

    for(n=0; n<nsteps; n++)
    {
        monitor.worked(1);
        sleep(1000);
        if(monitor.isCanceled())
           break;

        out.println("Hello!");
    }

    monitor.done();

    ]]>
</job>

<action id="do_this" text="${action_text}" icon="icons/ina.gif" enablement="true"
        language="JavaScript">
    test_job.start();
</action>
...

Defining RCP Perspective

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<perspective xmlns="http://www.rcml.net/ns/rcml/1.0/perspective">
    <view id="mailapp.navigationView" relationship="LEFT" standalone="true" showtitle="false"
          ratio="0.25"/>

    <folder id="letters" relationship="TOP" ratio="0.6">
        <view id="mailapp.view"/>
        <placeholder id="mailapp.view:*"/>
    </folder>
</perspective>