[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: StatusBar .setMessage method availabilit

[Andre Oosthuizen <andreo@xxxxxxxx>]

I did the following:

In my WorkbenchWindowAdvisor's postWindowOpen() method, I registered my 
listener like this:
<code>
	new 
AS400ConnectionListener(getWindowConfigurer().getActionBarConfigurer().getStatusLineManager());
</code>

My listener has a constructor that takes the IStatusLineManager argument 
and sets it as an instance variable:
<code>
	private IStatusLineManager manager;
	public AS400ConnectionListener(IStatusLineManager manager) {
		super();
		this.manager = manager;
	}
</code>

The net result is whenever my listener fires an event, it can gain 
access to the cached IStatusLineManager variable:
<code>
	public void connected(ConnectionEvent arg0) { 
manager.setMessage(MyPlugin.getDefault().getImage(MyPlugin.IMG_AS400_AVAILABLE), 
"Connected to iSeries.");
	}
</code>

If anyone has a better way of doing this I'd love to know about.

Martin Coetzee wrote:
> Hi Guys
>
> I've ben searching high and low. This is a dumb question I know. I've 
> enable the statusbar for our RCP application. I've written logic that 
> checks if the rcp application is connected to a server, and want to 
> display the connectivity status in the status bar. hmm...the dumb 
> question is, how do I access the status bar. I can't seem to find it in 
> the Workbench API's. The only way is to access it via the 
> getViewSite().getActionBars() method. Due to my class that check the 
> connectivity, is not visible and in another thread, how would I place 
> messages then?
>
> Thanx
> Martin Coetzee