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There seems to be no way to make a view non-persistent. I have users that want to create multiple graphs in separate views from within our eclipse plugin. To accomplish that, I use the multiple-instance views. That works great. However, when a graph has been created, it only exists for the current session. So, persisting the view doesn't make sense. It seems like this wouldn't be the only use case where a view should not be required to be persistent.
There seems to be a workaround in 3.2 via the IWorkbench.addWorkbenchListener that allows a plugin to listen for a pre-shutdown method that you can then go about hiding views you don't want to persist. Is there an equivalent for pre-3.2?
Sorry, no, there is no way to do this pre 3.2 if you don't control the application. In an RCP application, you can use WorkbenchAdvisor.preShutdown(), which is @since 3.0.
Brian, if you've migrated your project to Eclipse 3.4, you can try the new 'restorable' attribute that was added to the views extension point, see bug 215797.
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