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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Dynamic UI from Equinox
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Thanks Woody. We'll be looking at this with the Equinox team early in M6.
Regards,
Nick
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[platform-ui-dev] Dynamic UI from Equinox
In Equinox, we've been looking at how the workbench can be made dynamic.
We have been able to make incremental and non-intrusive changes to
org.eclipse.ui.workbench to make ui extensions responsive to plugin
life-cycle changes in a dynamic manner. Currently the latest dynamc ui
(org.eclipse.ui.workbench) is available from the Equinox repo. This
version is based on the Eclipse I20031113 build. A binary download will be
made available from Equinox download site soon.
If you are interested in seeing dynamic UI in action, you can run the
following scenario:
1. start a new runtime workbench with the new org.eclipse.ui.workbench
from Equinox. Make sure -console is on (in program arguments)
2. when the new workbench is up, on the console view, park cursor on the
first position of the first empty line to activate the command
interpreter.
3. from command interpreter, type status and return to find out the bundle
id for the jdt.ui plugin
4. from command interpreter, type uninstall id# (where # is the bundle id
for jdt.ui)
5. go back to the new workbench and you will see that all visible ui
extensions (perspectives, views, new project wizard, etc.) for jdt.ui are
gone
6. from command interpreter, type install
reference:fie:<path-of-plugins>.org.eclipse.jdt.ui_3.0.0 and return, you
should get a bundle id
7. from command interpreter, type start id# where # is the bundle id for
jdt.ui
8. now go to the new workbench and you will see that ui extensions for
jdt.ui are all back in the workbench
Let me know if you need help or have any questions. Thanks.
Woody Huang
IBM T.J. Watson Reserach Center
30 Saw Mill River Road, H0-C23
Hawthorne, NY 10532
(914) 784-7523
