Re: [platform-core-dev] eclipse as a general application framework

[Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxx]

Masn,

I recommend trying Jeff's suggestion.  Here are some concrete steps you 
could try out:

- Open a new Resource perspective using Perspective / Open / Resource
- close all views in the perspective one by one
- choose Perspective / Show View / Properties
- choose Perspective / Hide Editors
- you should now have a perspective containing just the Properties view
- now pretend the Properties view is your database view
- choose Perspective / Save As... and enter Database as the name
- choose Perspective / Close All
- choose Perspective / Open / Other... / Database

Note that when this perspective is open, there are relatively few 
resource-specific menu items.

Note that you can set up such a perspective with your own views using the 
org.eclipse.ui.perspectives extension point.
For more info on views and perspectives, see the articles on eclipse.org.

My apologies if this is too simplistic, but I just wanted to make sure you 
knew about the possibility of creating your own perspectives.

Nick





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see <jm>



Depending on what you want, another approach to this is to leave the
resources plugin in and just not use it.  That is, if the perspectives you
present don't allow for any resource manipulation, the resources plugin
will not do much.  There would be a small overhead in memory and on disk
but that's it.

<mas>I am not sure if this is going to work. Are you assuming that that I
don't use org.eclipse.ui.* ? If I want to use the workbench, it will try 
(I
guess) to contact the resource, which in turn will write to the local 
disk.
Am I right? This is not good if it's true. more below.</mas>

<jm>The UI will contact/use the resources plugin BUT, if you do not create
any resources, no resources will be written to disk!  The standard UI has 
a
resource Navigator and a Properties view etc.  If you adjust the
perspectives you show in your application to not have these views, your UI
will appear to be free of resources even though under the covers there is
the possibility that resources *could* exist.  They just don't.
</jm>

Jeff





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