[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Closing and reopening IWorkbenchPage's d

[Daniel Krügler <dsp@xxxxxxx>]

Hello Pascal Rapicault,

Pascal Rapicault schrieb:
> Given that the workbench stores its state (layout of views, windows in 
> the instance area (Platform.*location* / osgi.instance.area)), what I 
> advise you to do is:
> In the run method of your program before doing anything prompt the user 
> for login info, based on that info computes the location of where the 
> instance area is for this user (this can be done behind the scene and 
> the user does not need to know) and then starts the workbench 
> (platformUI.runandDispatch()). given that the workbench will restore its 
> state from the information read in the instance area, you will be fine.

Actually the RCP is already working in the way you describe, so I don't 
have any problems with situations during **primary RCP startup** and 
**final shutdown**.

Regrettably our requirements are that the RCP should allow a 
login-change during runtime, i.e. any time **after** the primary startup 
and login (Ekkehard recognized this use-case very well) and I would like 
to use the same kind of mechanism here to save and restore user information.

Do you think that I could do that using the current Eclipse RCP API?


Thank you very much,

Daniel