Description Simon Arsenault 2001-10-10 22:43:13 EDT

From the eclipse newsgroup. Posted by Randy Hudson from IBM (8/27/2001 4:33PM)

	1) open an IViewPart in a perspective.
	2) Define a ViewDescriptor programmatically.
	3) do programmatically whatever I can do with a plugin.xml file.  Maybe I
	want to connect to a server, query it for some set of plugins, and then
	declare those plugins programatically by creating a Descriptor, setting its
	necessary attributes, and registering it somehow.

NOTES:

SA (8/28/2001 10:51:46 AM)
	Note #1 above refers to opening a view not defined in XML. Goes with
	request #2. See the message "Hot to do dynamic stuff in the Workbench?"
	posted on 8/27/2001 3:25 PM

SA (8/28/2001 10:53:38 AM)
	Here is a reply from Ted Stockwell (8/27/2001 10:19AM)

	How about being able to define "hidden" view, editor, perspective, and
	wizard categories?
	To do this a new attribute named "hidden" could be added to the associated
	category element tags.
	Defining hidden = "true" would be a hint to not include the categories in UI
	elements that display them, so the categories won't show up in menus,
	toolbars and such.
	Everything else about the objects in these hidden categories would remain
	the same.

DS (8/28/01 11:13:00 AM)
	The hidden attribute is an interesting idea.  It still forces the ISV to declare their view up front
	but the view does not appear in the menus.  The same tag could be added for editors, like the
	compare, which are not normally be visible.