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I have attempted to hide the toolbar in Eclipse and was unable to via the GUI. After asking around in the news group, I was referred to the .metadata directory in the workspace. I found a flag in there to also hide the toolbar but that flag appears to be ignored also. Only three toolbars are ignoring the command to hide. One has the save item on it, another has the "next issue" item on it and the third has back and forward buttons on it to navigate through the edit windows.
Is this a MacOS X specific problem, that is do you want us to support the Aqua "hide toolbar" button in the top right corner of the window title bar? Or is this a platform-independent problem? Thanks.
Negative, this appears to be across multiple platforms. I have confirmed it on Linux and OS X
OK, then I can set the Platform and OS fields to "All".
What flag in the .metadata file are you talking about? Such a flag does not exist. Anyway, in 2.1, there is an internal preference to allow products to turn off the toolbar, shortcut bar and/or status line. For details, see [Bug 29179], comment #15. As part of the 3.0 Rich Client Platform, the ability to control the workbench composition will be supported, so I'm closing this as "wontfix".
As stated in the original comments, the command to turn off the toolbar inside of the application does not work. Telling it to hide the toolbars is ignored for the toolbars that are listed. As for the metadata setting. I am referring to the file workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench/pref_store.ini Setting SHOW_TOOL_BAR=0 is ignored by the toolbars listed. I have read bug 29179 and what I am describing is the fact that three of the toolbars are ignoring the command/instruction/whatever to hide themselves and they do not hide.
It needs to be specified as follows: SHOW_TOOL_BAR=false I just tried it - it works fine (build 20030520). If this is your problem (incorrect specification), can you please close this bug report. If not, please indicate what build you are using.
Just downloaded and tested against the most recent nightly build. The Integration build is not available for OS X yet, Stable build, which I was using, is quite a bit older than the version you tested against. In any event, testing against build 200305270010 for OS X the problem is actually worse. More toolbars are ignoring the command to hide and even customizing the toolbar and removing them does nothing. I changed the parameter in the .metadata per your instructions and the result was the same. Other commands in that same metadata file are being recognized (tested status bar).
Nightly builds are always dicey. I tested the flag on Windows since it said All platforms, but you have only seen the problem on Mac and Linux, right? I just tested build 20030507 on Linux and the flag works. Is there anything in your .log file? Nick, any ideas?
Nick, do you have any ideas as to why this would not be working for him?
On Linux: I had tested the "customize toolbar" command and found it to be not working. However, this was an older build (probably middle of March build). I did not test changing the metadata directly since I did not learn of that under after I switched out my Linux machine. On OS X: I tested both the customize toolbar command and the changing of the metadata property. Under my previous build (March 20ish build) only the three toolbars listed in the original comment refused to hide. However, under the current build, all of the toolbars are visible.
The Customize Perspective option will not allow you to remove the workbench toolbars (i.e., the ones you mention). This has never been supported and will not be supported until 3.0. The SHOW_TOOL_BAR internal preference has nothing to do with the Customize Perspective option. If the SHOW_TOOL_BAR preference is false, the entire toolbar area will be removed from the workbench window. This is the only way to remove all items from the toolbar, but at this point you will not have a toolbar either.
Sounds perfect! The problem is setting SHOW_TOOL_BAR=false in workspace/.metadata/.plugins/ org.eclipse.ui.workbench/pref_store.ini does not remove the toolbar.
Bug 29179 refers to modifying the plugin customization file for the primary feature (e.g. eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.platform/plugin_customization.ini). We do not recommend changing the pref_store.ini files under .metadata. However, the effect -should- be the same, and this should work the same on all platforms. Note that if you are modifying the pref_store.ini file itself, then you don't need to specify the qualifying plugin in the key. That is, specify: SHOW_TOOL_BAR=false not: org.eclipse.ui.workbench/SHOW_TOOL_BAR=false To trace this, set a breakpoint in WorkbenchWindow.updateBarVisibility().
I was unclear. I am setting the following value in the pref_store.ini file: SHOW_TOOL_BAR=false this file is in the org.eclipse.ui.workbench directory. With this value set to false, it is my understanding that the entire toolbar should disappear. However, the toolbar is remaining.
This is Mac specific. It works on Linux and Windows. Moving back to SWT. The toolbar is being hidden in Eclipse by setting its bounds to 0,0,0,0. This isn't working on the Mac for some reason.
The problem is that the workbench is not creating to separator between the menubar (actually titlebar on the Mac) in ApplicationWindow.configureShell(): if (! "carbon".equals(SWT.getPlatform())) //$NON-NLS-1$ new Label(shell, SWT.SEPARATOR | SWT.HORIZONTAL); And the code in WorkbenchWindow.layout() does not expected that. It always resizes the the first child, which is the CoolBar (Toolbar) on the Mac: Control[] ws= composite.getChildren(); for (int i= 0; i < ws.length; i++) { Control w= ws[i]; if (i == 0) {
Reassigning back to Lynne for further now that we have SWT's comments.
Fixed in build > 20030610.
