[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Is it possible to open 2 editors in diff

["Svante Lidman" <svante_nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The way I interpreted the question was that Setya wanted the second editor 
to open in a new tab group without creating it first.

I have been struggling with this myself and have not yet found a working 
solution. What I have tried to do is something like the following in the 
partOpened() method of a PartListener


                MyEditor ucdEditor = (MyEditor) part;

                PartSite newEditorsSite = (PartSite) myEditor.getSite();
                EditorPane newEditorsPane = 
(EditorPane)newEditorsSite.getPane();
                EditorStack newEditorsStack = 
(EditorStack)newEditorsPane.getStack();

                EditorSashContainer sashContainer = 
newEditorsPane.getWorkbook().getEditorArea();
                newStack = EditorStack.newEditorWorkbook(sashContainer, 
(WorkbenchPage)newEditorsSite.getPage());
                sashContainer.stack(newEditorsPane, newStack);
                sashContainer.add(newStack, 2, 0.3f, newEditorsStack);

                 newStack.becomeActiveWorkbook(true);
                 newStack.setVisibleEditor(newEditorsPane);

                 sashContainer.getControl().setRedraw(true);
                 newStack.getControl().setRedraw(true);
                 newEditorsPane.getControl().setRedraw(true);
                 newEditorsPane.setFocus();

It looks really good at first but you soon realise that something is messed 
up as the connection between the editor panes and their tabs is broken (at 
least :)  ). The setRedraw(true) calls are merely fruitless attempts to do 
this.

I have put this on the backburner for now but will get back to it in a week 
or two. If someone could provide some additional input I would be really 
happy as I do not really understand what I am doing here...

However I do ofcourse understand what I do above is completely "wrong" as I 
use internal API:s etc.but I am willing to take the consequences of that.

TIA

Svante



"Paul Webster" <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:d7f23m$7pm$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Setya wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> When I open 2nd editor I need it to be placed in different tab groups 
>> than the 1st one. Is it possible ?
>>
>> The current behaviour the 2nd editor always put in the same tab groups as 
>> the 1st one than the 2nd editor can be separated by dragging it outside 
>> the 1st editor area. I want this behaviour not by dragging but by opening 
>> at the first time.
>
> Once you have the second tabbed stack open, you can choose which stack to 
> open an editor in by making it active.
>
> // editors in the 2 different tabbed stacks
> IEditorPart last;
> IEditorPart current;
> // filenames to open in editors
> IFile[] filename;
>
> IWorkbenchPage fActivePage;
> fActivePage = PlatformUI.getWorkbench()
> .getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage();
> for (int i = 2; i < filename.length; ++i) {
> fActivePage.activate(last);
> last = current;
> current = IDE.openEditor(fActivePage, filename[i], true);
> }
>
> There's some automated code in the unit tests that does this, 
> org.eclipse.ui.tests.api.Bug95357Test in the org.eclipse.ui.tests project.
>
> Later,
> Paul