Bug 2536

Summary:	Window lifecycle needed (1GFL2TW)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Eduardo Pereira <eduardo_pereira>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	Darin_Swanson
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	api
Target Milestone:	2.0 M5
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Nick Edgar

2001-10-10 22:38:19 EDT

From Eclipse Corner (6/13/2001):

It seems some obvious functionality is missing from IWorkbench. We need to
know when a new workbench window is opened or an existing one closed. For
example:

IWorkbench.addWorkbenchListener(IWorkbenchListener)

IWorkbenchListener would contain, among other methods,
windowOpened(IWorkbenchWindow)
windowClosed(IWorkbenchWindow)
etc...


I've found a workaround. However, this is very ugly and it would be great if
someone could give an estimate when real listener support could be added to
IWorkbench. I'm adding a ShellListener to the current WorkbenchWindow's
shell. When I get a shellDeactivated, I check to see what the
activeWorkBenchWindow is. If its not the original window, I know I've got a
new one. I've discovered I must do the check in an asyncExec, because at the
time shellDeactivated is called, the original workbench window is still the
active one.

NOTES:

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2001-10-29 18:58:33 EST

PRODUCT VERSION:
125

Comment 2 Nick Edgar

2002-01-26 21:35:52 EST

Should add for 2.0.
There was also a recent newsgroup request for this.

Comment 3 Eduardo Pereira

2002-04-09 09:54:54 EDT

Fixed and released.
IWindowListener has the following methods:

public void windowActivated(IWorkbenchWindow window);
public void windowDeactivated(IWorkbenchWindow window);
public void windowClosed(IWorkbenchWindow window);
public void windowOpened(IWorkbenchWindow window);

Comment 4 Eduardo Pereira

2002-04-10 15:11:42 EDT

Released.