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Adding a view into a perspective without opening the perspective. [message #331826]

Wed, 24 September 2008 03:23

Eclipse User

Hello,

I want to add a view into a perspective. The view has the 'allowMultiple'
flag set and is opened multiple time within different perspectives.

At the moment I open the view using a IWorkbenchPage received by calling
showPerspective().
IWorkbenchPage page =
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().showPerspective(processor.getId(),
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow());
...
TaskView processorView = (TaskView)page.showView(TaskView.ID, secondaryId,
IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_CREATE);

This approach has the drawback that the perspective into which a view is
placed has to be shown. I would prefer adding a view 'silently' into a
perspective without having to show the perspective at the same time.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Jan

Re: Adding a view into a perspective without opening the perspective. [message #331858 is a reply to message #331826]

Thu, 25 September 2008 09:53

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

Jan Kohnert wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I want to add a view into a perspective. The view has the
> 'allowMultiple' flag set and is opened multiple time within different
> perspectives.
> At the moment I open the view using a IWorkbenchPage received by calling
> showPerspective().
> IWorkbenchPage page =
> PlatformUI.getWorkbench().showPerspective(processor.getId(),
> PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow());
> ..
> TaskView processorView = (TaskView)page.showView(TaskView.ID,
> secondaryId, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_CREATE);
>
>
> This approach has the drawback that the perspective into which a view is
> placed has to be shown. I would prefer adding a view 'silently' into a
> perspective without having to show the perspective at the same time.
>
> Is this possible?

I suppose you could do it declaratively in plugin.xml instead of via
Java code. Use the org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions extension point.

Hope this helps,
Eric

Re: Adding a view into a perspective without opening the perspective. [message #331862 is a reply to message #331858]

Thu, 25 September 2008 10:42

Eclipse User

Eric,

I don'nt think that it is possible doing it declaratively. The
perspectives are all cloned perspectives. The cloned perspectives Id's are
all dependant on a processors (a model class )id. A processors id is
unfortunately not predictable. So it us impossible to add such a
perspective id into any extension point. :(

Jan

Re: Adding a view into a perspective without opening the perspective. [message #331867 is a reply to message #331826]

Thu, 25 September 2008 14:27

Eclipse User

No, only the active perspective can be updated with views. There's no
way to address view.X into open.inactive.perspective.Y

PW

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