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3.0 In my RCP application I want more control of the status line, in particular the ability to turn off the progress region and status message. Or at least control their ordering. The problem I have is that in the applications status line all I have are two contribution items, when the app runs it looks bad to have the two randomly appearing in somewhat of the middle of the status line with no visual clue that they shouldn't be aligned to the left. I could go off and write my own status line and in the workbench advisor overwrite the createWindowContents() method. A better solution would be to allow a workbench advisor to override the status line manager with it's own. This would keep all existing plug-ins code that uses the status line compatible with standalone applications and if running in another product. Since the status line is simply another contribution manager, this seems like a reasonable request.
This is already possible via the presentation factory mechanism. See AbstractPresentationFactory.createStatusLineManager and createStatusLineControl. But there should be more control over placement in the default setup, as you describe.
One downside of the current approach is that you can't replace the status line independently of the rest of the presentation (i.e. view/editor presentation).
The workaround is to create your own presentation factory and delegate the createEditorPresentation and createViewPresentation to the WorkbenchPresentationFactory (which is API) and return your own status line. Then simply set the presentation preference in your workbenchadvisor and voila. Do you have any problems with subclassing WorkbenchPresentationFactory?
While this would work, a better approach would be to get the previous presentation factory from IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer.getPresentationFactory() and delegate to it for the other methods. That is, from preWindowOpen: configurer.setPresentationFactory( new StatusLineReplacementPresentationFactory( configurer.getPresentationFactory()); This preserves the ability to customize the presentation factory via the IWorkbenchPreferenceConstants.PRESENTATION_FACTORY_ID preference in plugin_customization.ini.
I'd also like to reorder the ProgressIndicator for the same reasons. I don't see how this is possible without writing complete duplicates of the StatusLine and StatusLineManager classes, since the ProgressIndicator placement is controlled in the package level StatusLine class. Other than that, how would you go about moving the ProgressIndicator?
Yes you have to copy. Nick, the methods you recommend using for setting/getting the presentation factory are deprecated? Is this an approach that should be explained publicly?
Another more important note, it is actually impossible to implement what you have recommended. The reason is that the workbench window creates the StatusLineManager in it's constructor, delegating to the presentation factory. If an advisor needs to override, it would have to proxy the presentation factory *before* preWindowOpen() is called. This can't be done because the IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer isn't available at that time. Since the presentation isn't scoped to a particular window, could it be made accessible via the IWorkbenchConfigurer instead?
The recommended way to override the presentation is to specify org.eclipse.ui/presentationFactoryId=<yourPresentationFactoryId> in the plugin_customization.ini file for the product. For more details, see http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/rcp/faq.html#customPrefs
I know, but the whole point was not to override the presentation but to proxy it. That was your suggestion from the very beginning :) Otherwise, you can simply wrap the WorkbenchPresentationFactory and register as you said.
Oh, right. We could change the order of things in WorkbenchWindow's constructor. E.g. move addMenuBar(); addCoolBar(SWT.FLAT); addStatusLine(); after getAdvisor().preWindowOpen(getWindowConfigurer()); But that would really be only in support of the deprecated APIs. I no longer think it makes sense to tie the status line customization to the presentation factory. Apps should have full control over the status line, independent of the presentation, in the same way they do over menus and coolbars. We should chat about the best way to do this.
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