Bug 269342

Summary: [Viewers] [Workbench] Possibility to reset the history is missing.
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Sisu Alexandru <sisu.eugen>
Component: UIAssignee: Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3 CC: contact, pwebster, sisu.eugen
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows Vista   
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Description Sisu Alexandru CLA 2009-03-19 08:00:21 EDT 
In org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.FilteredItemsSelectionDialog, there's a problem regarding the history items.

Assuming that I want to implement a locate resource dialog, and I'm extending the FilteredItemsSelectionDialog, and assuming that I'm also using a history, 
after several uses of this dialog, the number of  history items gets big, and I would like to clear this history.

This can be partially done, but not completly.
I can remove the items from history, but I can not do that from the user interface, due to the fact that everything is private within FilteredItemsSelectionDialog; I refer here to ContentProvider class, which can be reseted.

So, my request for enhancement would be: allow the possibility to have set manually a contentProvider or make it public, or protected.
Comment 1 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-03-24 01:45:18 EDT 
Would you be able to submit a patch? See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/How_to_Contribute
Comment 2 Boris Bokowski CLA 2009-11-26 09:51:28 EST 
Hitesh is now responsible for watching bugs in the [Viewers] component area.
Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster CLA 2019-09-06 16:10:33 EDT 
This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.