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

["Zenil" <zenil123@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Nick,

Thanks for the info.
The PropertySheetPage is that of eclipse,but the PropertySheetEntry used is UnDoablePropertySheetEntry)is provided by GEF.

But thats not the issue.

High level categories are expanded by default.I can see that.
U r talking about the one's u get when u use setCategory() api.

I have been able to "simulate" more "categories" under these high-level
category.[When getPropertyValue(prop) is called,i return another propertySource.This leads to groupings being formed,again org.eclipse.ui.examples.propertysheet has this example]

So i was thinking how to expand these sub-level "groupings"[so as not to be confused with propertysheet highlevel categories] by default.

I think my problem lies in PropertySheetViewer.handleTreeExpand()..whatever it is doing here,i got to do at startup(when propertysheet is initialized) so that ALL items are expanded..

Looking for some more suggestions,

Rgds,
Zenil

On Wed, 03 Mar 2004 Nick Edgar wrote :
>Zenil,
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>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.
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>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.
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>HTH,
>Nick
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>Hi All,
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>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.
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>I have several cases where i require this behaviour:
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>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.)
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>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.
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>Thanks for any suggestions..
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>Rgds,
>Zenil
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