| [platform-ui-dev] NavigatorContent override and getStyledText |
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Hi, this is my first post to
this list so please forgive me if there is a better way of asking these
questions. This question relates to the Navigator UI. I am looking into how to create
a pipelined content provider that overrides
org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resourceContent. When working with it I realize that
if more than one content provider exists for a parent, only the label provider
for the content provider with the highest priority gets called for
getStyledText, because NavigatorContentServiceLabelProvider.findStyledText
contains the following: (NavigatorContentServiceLabelProvider.java:184) if (text != null) { return new StyledString(text); } that will be called for the
default label provider. At the same time, the iterator loop in getStyledText will
continue until the text is not null (which means the loop will terminate early
with the empty string before my label provider got the chance to answer. The
WorkbenchLabelProvider will answer here and return null, but since it does not
implement IStyledLabelProvider it will be wrapped in an empty StyledString by the
code above. I am not sure how this is supposed to work. I can set my priority
higher in the plugin.xml, but then I will break another content provider’s
labels. Is there a better way of doing
this? I can see the possibility to implement an IWorkbenchAdapter for the item
and get WorkbenchLabelProvider to provide something non-null, but that seems a
bit awkward. Cheers // Rickard |