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contribute to status line [message #328127]

Wed, 14 May 2008 19:55

Hauke Fuhrmann

Messages: 333
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi there,

I try to contribute some simple text to the status line.
I wrote a little plugin without any view, it shall simply write the
current mouse cursor position to the status line.

I tried to get some valid StatusLineManager but the only way I can get
it seems to be via a view. I don't have a view, so I try to search for
any resp. all ones:

IViewReference views[] =
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActi vePage().getViewReferences();
for (int i = 0; i < views.length; i++) {
IStatusLineManager line =
views[i].getView(false).getViewSite().getActionBars().getSta tusLineManager();
line.setMessage(msg);
line.update(true);
}

This is really ugly. Is there no straight forward way to contribute to
the status line without access to a certain view?

Best regards,
Hauke

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Re: contribute to status line [message #328915 is a reply to message #328127]

Fri, 06 June 2008 17:27

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

Hauke Fuhrmann wrote:
>
> This is really ugly. Is there no straight forward way to contribute to
> the status line without access to a certain view?

No. The active part will set the status line (i.e. whatever you have
done will be overwritten the next time the active part changes).

You can put your own status label in the trim using the
org.eclipse.ui.menus extension point, however, available from 3.3 onwards.

--
Paul Webster
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Paul Webster
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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