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Show view, but not from a workbench page [message #325814]

Wed, 27 February 2008 21:00

Eclipse User

I want to show a view at a point and in the past this has worked:

IWorkbenchPage page =
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActi vePage();
try {
page.showView("VIEW.ID.HERE");
} catch (PartInitException e) {...}

But now I want to do this from something that's called from a
launch dialog, so getActiveWorkbenchWindow() returns null.

Re: Show view, but not from a workbench page [message #325815 is a reply to message #325814]

Wed, 27 February 2008 21:19

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: fakemail.xyz.de

Beth Tibbitts schrieb:
> I want to show a view at a point and in the past this has worked:
>
> IWorkbenchPage page =
> PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActi vePage();
> try {
> page.showView("VIEW.ID.HERE");
> } catch (PartInitException e) {...}
>
> But now I want to do this from something that's called from a
> launch dialog, so getActiveWorkbenchWindow() returns null.

try running your code from an UIJob.
as getActiveWorkbenchWindow() will only work when called from the gui
Thread.

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