Comment 1 DJ Houghton 2001-10-29 17:40:53 EST

PRODUCT VERSION:

RH requests:

I have a suggestion for a future release of the Workbench regarding Editor
contributors.
Rather than having the workbench define that there will be one instance of
a contributor per
Editor type per Workbench window, let the Editor itself determine how many
instances there
should be.  This would be analogous to asking the Editor for its
ContentOutline page, which
is what currently happens, versus defining the ContentOutline page in XML.

Some editors could return a reused instance of a contributor, whether there
is just one per workbench Page
or one for all of the workbench would depend on the Editor.  Some editors
might want a new contributor
instance for each instance of an editor.  By using
getAdapter(IActionBarContributor), the Editor could
decide.

Randy Hudson

P.S.  This solution could even be phased in without affecting client code.
Since unknowning Editors will
return null for getAdapter(), the workbench could revert to the current
style of looking for a plugin extension
in plugin.xml

Comment 2 Kevin Haaland 2002-01-25 12:29:20 EST

This is an interesting idea

Comment 3 Randy Giffen 2002-08-06 17:00:59 EDT

Reopen for investigation

Comment 4 Kevin Haaland 2002-09-03 16:53:23 EDT

Defer