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Outline View [message #326174]

Mon, 10 March 2008 13:24

Manuel Selva

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

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Hi all,

I want to contribute my own content to the Eclipse outline view. It seems
that this view is linked to the current Editor, is there any way for me to
change the content of the outline view when my own view is given focus ?

In fact i created a new eclipse view displaying some informations as a
Time chart. When the user is using this view (== view has focus) i want to
display a Thumbnail of my chart in the outline view. Is there any way to
do this ?

Regards,

Manu
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Re: Outline View [message #326175 is a reply to message #326174]

Mon, 10 March 2008 13:45

Paul Webster

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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Manuel Selva wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to contribute my own content to the Eclipse outline view. It
> seems that this view is linked to the current Editor, is there any way
> for me to change the content of the outline view when my own view is
> given focus ?

The standard ContentOutline view just cares about editor ... see
org.eclipse.ui.views.contentoutline.ContentOutline.isImporta nt(IWorkbenchPart)

So you wouldn't be able to contribute your view content to the standard
outline view, but you could implement your own by either subclassing
PageBookView and doing similar work or potentially subclassing
ContentOutline (although I'm not so sure how that would go).

Later,
PW

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Re: Outline View [message #326176 is a reply to message #326175]

Mon, 10 March 2008 14:18

Manuel Selva

Messages: 189
Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, France

Senior Member

Hi Paul,

After looking at Eclipse ContentOutline class i reached the isImportant
method and changed it to always return true :

//We only care about editors
//return (part instanceof IEditorPart);
return true;

My ViewPart is able to adapt to IOutlineContent and is asked for its
content outline control each time it's necessary.

Do you think it would be reasonable to open the Standard outline view to
also care about view part ?

You suggested me to create my own outline view ? But the user will be
confuse with 2 outline view .... Do you agree ?

Thanks for your support

Manu
http://manuelselva.wordpress.com

http://manuelselva.wordpress.com/

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Re: Outline View [message #326179 is a reply to message #326176]

Mon, 10 March 2008 14:44

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

Manuel,

Probably that's not reasonable since this would imply that any time any
other view gets focus, the outline view will want to show the outline
view for that view, but your view would be the only one that supports
it, so in all other cases, the outline view would go blank. I don't
think post users would want to see such a change in behavior...

Manuel Selva wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> After looking at Eclipse ContentOutline class i reached the
> isImportant method and changed it to always return true :
>
> //We only care about editors
> //return (part instanceof IEditorPart);
> return true;
>
> My ViewPart is able to adapt to IOutlineContent and is asked for its
> content outline control each time it's necessary.
> Do you think it would be reasonable to open the Standard outline view
> to also care about view part ?
> You suggested me to create my own outline view ? But the user will be
> confuse with 2 outline view .... Do you agree ?
>
> Thanks for your support
>
> Manu
> http://manuelselva.wordpress.com
>

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