Re: [platform-ui-dev] IContext JavaDoc

[Jared Burns <jaredburns@xxxxxxx>]

Thanks, Chris. I read the proposal (and the "Canadian Idol" thread) and I have 
a few questions.

1. When you activate a context, does the platform automatically open all the 
view's associated with that context? Or does the context provider have 
control over which views appear?

2. Does manually activating a single view from a context mean that that 
context is now considered active? If not, does that break the idea of linking 
keybindings to contexts (you'd have a view without its keybindings)? If so, 
would the other views in that context be automatically opened when you open 
one view?

3. Can contexts have multiple parents? It's easy to imagine contexts that 
would want this. For example, the "java debugging" context might want to 
extend both the generic "debugging" context and the "java text editing" 
context. If you don't like that example, take the "java hot-swap debugging" 
context which extends both "java debugging" and "java text editing" or the 
FooBarBaz context which wants to extend Foo and Bar.

- Jared


On Wednesday 10 September 2003 04:13 pm, Chris McLaren wrote:
> context api docs will appear *shortlyish*. there is a contexts
> proposal/white paper on the platform ui team page which should help
> somewhat.
>
> the context work is tracked under "[workbench] [plan item] scalability"
> bug # 37929.
>
> as far as moving the code goes, i expect it will be moving very shortly in
> fact, out of the workbench plugin to its own plugin - either at the ui
> level (org.eclipse.ui.contexts) or the jface level
> (org.eclipse.jface.contexts).
>
> chris.
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> Jared Burns <jaredburns@xxxxxxx>
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> We here in debugland are interested in the emerging IContext work to
> better
> support multiple language debuggers. I've been asked to explore this, but
> it
> looks like IContext and related interfaces/classes are mostly
> undocumented.
>
> It's no problem if the interfaces change, but it would be helpful to have
> some
> basic JavaDoc in place so that we can at least see how things stand right
> now. For our planning purposes, does anyone have an idea when comments
> might
> start to appear on this code?
>
> Also, my queries haven't had any luck finding the bug report that's
> tracking
> the context work. Does anyone have a bug number?
>
> Thanks,
> - Jared
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