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You can specify a view to be a fast view on the IPageLayout in a IPerspectiveFactory but you have no more control than that. In the latest builds the fast view bar is at the bottom of the window and when you click the fast view icon then it shows a horizontally maximised fast view with the vertical height being able to be set via the ratio (float value). I want it show like the old fast views being vertically maximised but the horizontal size via the ratio. The option to pin a fast view has also disappeared in the latest builds, where is it!!! Once this feature makes it back in I also like to specify where the fast view will get pinn'ed via the IPerspectiveFactory (i.e. to a Placeholder or Folder).
The level of control I want to acheive is to be able to add fastviews to the PageLayout and then also specify the placeholder for them when the user does perform a restore they go to the correct area. I also want to be able to say if the fast view is Vertical or Horizontal. Part of this bug could be because if you specify a place holder for a view then the code for addFastView will not process because the view ref id already exists: public void addFastView(String id, float ratio) { if (checkPartInLayout(id)) return; ..... This will cause the fast view not to be added. If you perform it the other way with the FastView being added first and then the placeholder being added, it will ignore the placeholder information.
The "pin" option is still available - just not from the toolbar. Right-clicki on the fast view's tab and de-select "fast view". That will do the same thing as the pin icon. You can also re-dock a fast view using drag and drop. The default location of fast views has changed from M8. They will always appear on the left now. We have no plans to expose the "horizontal/vertical" fastview option as API (since this concept might be removed in the future in favor of 2 resize sashes). However, it is possible that there *might* be future API to specify the preferred dimensions of a view (in pixels), which would also be used to determine the view's initial orientation and size when used as a fastview. The suggestion to permit placeholders for fastviews is good, but it is unlikely if this enhancement will be added for 3.0.
I have tested modifying the PageLayout class by making the checkPartInLayout(..) method always return false and it worked by enabling you to specifiy a view in a placeholder and then adding it as a fast view. I don't know what this will potentially break but it is just a check method and maybe there could be someway to override/configure. This would only take a very small time to implement and gives a terrific enhancement by allowing the fast view to be pin'ed to a specific view folder rather than just the active one. Please reconsider this minor change, otherwise we will need to include a "hacked" version of workbench.jar from now on in our RCP application.
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