[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: StickyView -how to initialize as visible

[James Leotta <jleotta@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My new RCP book just came and it says that the stickyview extension just 
creates a placeholder but does not show the view.  When the existing 
view is opened it becomes sticky.

Paul Webster wrote:
> Based on some of the bugs I was able to find like 
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=104191 it seems that 
> StickyViews were created to give the appearance of the perspective being 
> shifted over ... they're supposed to be "outside" the perspective.
>
> That being said (if you sift through bugzilla) sticky view still have 
> some behavioural problems :-)
>
> It seems that the proper thing for your application to do is to open the 
> sticky view itself on startup at some appropriate point (sticky views 
> are "outside" the perspective, so you can't tie them in there).
>
> Not a very satisfying answer, but it appears that's the sticky view intent.
>
> Later,
> PW