Re: [platform-ui-dev] How To Expand Property Sheet By Default

[Nick Edgar <Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Zenil,

I'm not sure whether GEF editors provide their own property page 
implementation (IPropertySheetPage), but the default PropertySheetPage 
implementation or any implementation that uses PropertySheetViewer should 
automatically expand all top-level categories except Misc.

To see this, you can load the org.eclipse.ui.examples.propertysheet 
example, run your target, show the Properties view, create a .usr file, 
and select one of the people entries in the Outline view.
If this works the way you expect, I suggest filing a problem report 
against GEF.

HTH,
Nick




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Hi All,

I have tried the newsgroups had have not been able to get any answer to 
this problem..How to expand property sheet by default??
Is there a clean way to tell the property sheet that on focus gained, the 
items in the property sheet should be expanded.

I have several cases where i require this behaviour:

a)I have implemented a GEF Editor,on any action i perform some validations 
and show error markers in the outline view as well as property sheet.Now 
in order to see these markers,i have to go to property sheet and expand 
it.(The property sheet has categories nad several subitems in the form of 
a tree.)

b)Since my properties are in a tree structure,i would like to keep them 
expanded.As of now ,if click on an elementA,expand all the 
properties,click on elementB,come back to ElementA,all the expanded 
properties are collapsed..The behavior i am looking for is anytime i click 
on an element,i get a propertysheet with its elements expanded by default.

Thanks for any suggestions..

Rgds,
Zenil