| [platform-ui-dev] "opening up" PropertySheetViewer |
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There are currently a few feature requests (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=91749, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=4584) for allowing
users to customize how items are rendered in the PropertySheetViewer. It is
probably way too late to get anything included in time for the 3.2 release,
but I was hoping it would be possible to open up the viewer for extensions ever
so slightly, until a more "formal" extension mechanism may be agreed
upon.
The quick work-around would be for the
PropertySheetViewer class to change from
'private' to 'public', and the updateEntry() and updatePlus()
methods from 'private' to 'protected'. This would allow us to subclass just the
viewer, instead of having to clone & maintain our own version of
the complete org.eclipse.ui.views plugin (due to the viewer accessing
other private org.eclipse.ui.views classes etc.). Is there a way to
"fast-track" this change request, so that it may make it in time for
3.2?
Thanks,
John |