Bug 5683 - [View Mgmt] API to set initial position and size of a new view
Summary: [View Mgmt] API to set initial position and size of a new view
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 2.0   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: ---   Edit
Assignee: Nick Edgar CLA
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Reported: 2001-11-08 15:58 EST by Cagatay Kavukcuoglu CLA
Modified: 2004-10-26 10:21 EDT (History)
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Description Cagatay Kavukcuoglu CLA 2001-11-08 15:58:43 EST 
Currently, there is no API to control the initial position and size of a view 
created in the workbench page. It should be possible to set the initial 
position and size of the view, possibly by using IPageLayout-like 
functionality. The only workaround in the current versions is to define a new 
perspective extension in a plugin, which potentially will contribute to a user 
interface problem of "perspective pollution", and is not nearly dynamic enough.
Comment 1 Kevin Haaland CLA 2002-05-02 17:06:46 EDT 
Consider as a post 2.0 enhancement
Comment 2 Nick Edgar CLA 2002-05-03 10:15:44 EDT 
See the workbench build notes for some recent improvements to view placement:
- can specify preferred fast view width as a ratio
- can define placeholders for views as a perspective extension

Any other improvements will have to wait.
Comment 3 Randy Giffen CLA 2002-08-08 16:50:56 EDT 
Reopen for investigation
Comment 4 Nick Edgar CLA 2004-10-26 10:21:00 EDT 
We have no plans to address this in the 3.1 timeframe.

Any changes to how view placement is done would have to be backed up by concrete
scenarios.