[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Perspective customization questions

[nielinjie <nielinjie@xxxxxxxx>]

Mark Powell wrote:
> Hi group,
>
> There's a couple of things that I'd like to do with my RCP app that aren't 
> yet obvious to me how to do or even if there's a way to do.  Both things are 
> in the area of customization of how the perspective selection toolbar 
> appears when you first launch the application.
>
> First, I'd like to programmatically be able to turn off the text next to the 
> perspective icons.  I want this behavior to be the default behavior for my 
> app.
>
> Second, I'd like to put the icons for all of the perspectives that I define 
> in the toolbar by default.  I don't want the user to have to "Show 
> perspective" to get each one for the first time, or even to use the 
> short-list menu to get one for the first time.  I want the button for each 
> perspective visible the from the first moment they see the workbench appear.

I use following solution in my rcp, through looks foolish, but works

@Override
 public void postWindowOpen(IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer configurer) {
        super.postWindowOpen(configurer);
        IWorkbench wb = configurer.getWindow().getWorkbench();
        try {
        	wb.showPerspective("PerspectiveA.Id",configurer.getWindow());
wb.showPerspective("PerspectiveB.Id",configurer.getWindow());
wb.showPerspective("PerspectiveDefault",configurer.getWindow());
        } catch (WorkbenchException e) {
         e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }



> Thanks in advance for any advice or information about whether the platform 
> API currently supports/would be able to support these desirements.
>
> Mark Powell
> JPL