[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Common Navigator and the selection service

[valere fedronic <valere.fedronic.ext@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I remember that it is related to the ResourceLinkHelper 
(org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources) .

The link helper is used to convert an IEditorInput into an IFile, and 
the adapted IFile is selected in your navigator. So if your editor 
displays IEditorInput and your navigator shows IResources objects i 
think you just have to do this :

<extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer">
[...]
<viewerContentBinding
             viewerId="your.id">
<includes>
	<contentExtension
          pattern="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.linkHelper"/>
</viewerContentBinding>
[..]

If you are not using IResources in your navigator, you can declare a new 
linkhelper via the org.eclipse.ui.navigator.linkHelper extension point.
Use the help to see how the 
org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.linkHelper is declared.


Hope it helps.
Valère.





Eric Rizzo a écrit :
> Is there some material that demonstrates how to integrate a custom 
> common navigator with the selection service so that the selection of the 
> navigator viewer correctly follows the active editor?
> My project has a CommonNavigator-based view but even with the 
> "Synchronize with editor" option enabled in the UI, its selection does 
> not follow editor activation. The Navigator view does, even with our own 
> custom editors.
> There seems to me precious little information about CNF out there and 
> this seems to be one of the dark corners; anyone have any pointers?
>
> TIA,
> Eric