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Re: [platform-ui-dev] Working sets on a workbench window

For M3 we propose the following.  Working sets are selected per Window.  While the suggestion of a global working set (global being understood as one per window) would make the listening scenario a little simpler for views, it would still be necessary for views to look at the global working set to filter out working set types that are not meaningful for a particular view.  So since views need to do this anyway, it does not seem like a big benefit and is not worth doing.  Also we need to consider what type this global working set is, how to make it read only etc...

The goal is to allow views to remove as much of the working set related menu/toolbar items that have in favour of putting it in one place, if this does not support that goal then we are keen to make sure it does.

/michael


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Cool ! I am missing that feature as well. That's why I started hacking on a
comparable
feature in July. Here is what I did. May be it is of any help:

- added a special working set (global working set) which is simply a
reference to
 an existing working set

- views (e.g. package explorer) selected the global working set for
filtering

- changing the global working set to reference another working set updated
 all views referencing this working set since the global working set
changed.

The nice thing was that this didn't require any additional code on the view
part
side.

Dirk


                                                                         
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Yes.  For instance, the package explorer currently has a menu item to
select the visible working sets (when you're in the working set
mode).  With this new API, you could simply show all working sets
that are of the java type and listen for changes so that you can
update your tree appropriately.

On 9-Sep-05, at 10:27 AM, Dirk Baeumer wrote:

> Kimberly
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> can you explain the purpose of the new API to me. Is the idea that
> view
> parts listen to these
> changes and update there current working set accordingly.
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> How would a view tracking this know to update?
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> Next weeks integration build will introduce the following new API on
> IWorkbenchPage:
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> IWorkingSet[] getWorkingSets();
> void setWorkingSets(IWorkingSet[])
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> The intention of these methods is to allow you to specify what
> working sets should be visible across all components within a given
> workbench window.  Currently this API is not being used by any
> downstream component but we're making it public (and visible) now to
> gauge interest.
>
> By visible I am referring to a new action that's been added to the
> Resource Navigation action set.
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> You will see in your toolbar and in your Window menu a pulldown
> action called Working Sets.  The children of this action represent
> all working sets registered with the system IWorkingSetManager and
> are either checked or unchecked.  If they're checked, they're
> contained in the array returned by IWorkbenchPage.getWorkingSets().
>
> The notable problems with the implementation as it currently sits are
> as follows:
>      The "Edit..." action currently opens the "Select Working Set"
> dialog despite there being no selection required.  We will replace
> this with a more particular editing dialog at some later point.
>      The dropdown won't scale when the user has a large number of
> working sets.
>      The action needs a toolbar icon.
>      The action probably doesn't belong in the Resource Navigation
> action set.
> Please don't log these bugs.  We've already done so :)
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