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

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

valere fedronic wrote:
> 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>
> [..]


Thanks - I'll give that a try.

Eric



> 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