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Currently, when user close a editor, will only check whether it is dirty and popup a system defined dialog; for view, will just close, and no dialog will popup. Sometimes, the plugin may use the editor or view part to display some plugin specific UI, and want to prevent user from close it or at least popup different warning dialog. The platform should provide ways for the plugin to do that.
jml asks: Is there any plan in the 2.1 release to include the following feature: Give the editor a chance to popup some different warning dialog before it is being closed -- or even let the editor to choose not to be closed. I think this is a very useful feature to many plugins. We have a very small scripting language, user can debug it. During debugging, we want to enable user to directly modify the script code inside the editor, and the debugger will always run the newest code. So our debugger use the memory of the editor not the saved files. To easy implementation, we want to force user to keep the editor open during the debug session -- or when user try to close the editor, give us a chance to also stop the debugger.
We would also like to prevent the user from closing one of our views (i.e. not have the 'X' in the upper right corner).
i have a view that initially contains text from the active editor. Then users can modify the text in my view but not have the modifications apply to the active editor till the user explicitly says apply. when users close the active editor, i would like some sort of "Active editor about to close, apply changes to active editor?" message so that users can apply their changes before the editor closes. The best I can do now w/ the part closed listener is say "You just lost your changes"
This bug seems to cover a bunch of diverse issues -- a lot of which have been addressed. See bugs like Bug 72114, Bug 74028, Bug 76768. Also, see IPageLayout.addStandaloneView(). If there are any issues that you feel aren't covered by these, then please open separate (new) bugs.
