Changing default zoom control in GEF editor (combobox) to slider

Question

I'm working on an Eclipse editor based on GEF. I've added a zoom control for the editor, but I want it to look differently (specifically, I want it to be slider instead of a combobox). Does anyone knows how can I do this? Thanks in advance, Daniel

Answer 1

It's easy, just override the

org.eclipse.gef.ui.actions.ZoomComboContributionItem.createControl(Composite)

to create a slider, and call

org.eclipse.gef.editparts.ZoomManager.setZoomAsText(String)

with correct parameters.