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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Multiple instances of a view?
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Michael,
Allowing multiple instances of the same view in the same perspective is
something we have resisted in the past since we felt it would complicate
the UI.
However, in R3.0 we are trying to improve the scalability of the UI by
reducing the number of duplicate or highly similar views (e.g. we're
working on a generic navigator view and also a generic console view). This
may exacerbate the limitation of one view instance, since there are times
you want to see two facets of the same info simultaneously.
Could you please add your comments to our existing feature request for
this:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31612
If you have any suggestions for how to present this in the UI, feel free
to include those as well.
Thanks,
Nick
Michael Scharf <Michael-Scharf@xxxxxx>
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Subject: [platform-ui-dev] Multiple instances of a view?
In eclipse there can be at most one instance per
view. This is a nice concept. However, there are use cases
where this restriction can cause major headaches:
- Suppose I want to launch two instances of a program
and I want to see the console outputs side by side.
At the moment, I have switch between the outputs
(with the additional disadvantage that you loose
the scroll position when switching)
- Suppose I want to look at the hierarchy of two
more classes. With the "at most one view" concept this
becomes very difficult (again, switching between the
states is slow and you loos the scroll position)
- Suppose I have multiple debug sessions running and I
want to see the local variables of two sessions side
by side, that's not possible....
- ... any usecase where a user wants to see multiple views
in parallel...
We are implementing a set of views where one use case is, to
have multiple instances visible at the same time (the
examples above I used to illustrate the problem, and
to show that this is a more general problem).
- What is the eclipse way to solve those use cases?
- Use (read-only) editors instead of views?
- Create a plugins.xml with MyView1, MyView2, MyView3... all
refering to the same class with different Ids?
- Create view configurations on the fly, if needed (ist
this possible)?
Michael
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