[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Programitically Load Perspectives

[Laurent Marchal <lmarchal@xxxxxxxxxx>]

You really should not use the perspective name, the ID is the good way 
to do ! But you can walk through the extension registry find the 
perspective with your own way, get the ID an open it.

// get the extension registry.
final IExtensionRegistry registry = Platform.getExtensionRegistry();

// get the perspectives extension
final IConfigurationElement[] perspectives = 
registry.getConfigurationElementsFor(PERPSECTIVES_EXTENSION_ID);

// Loop in the categories and categoriesRef
for (int i = 0; i < perspectives.length; i++) {
	// Find your perspective by name
}

// open it !




Mark wrote:
> I think the showPerspective method needs the perspective ID.  I'd like 
> to create the perspective from the XML string that's stored in the 
> preferences.  Any idea how to do that?
>
> Thanks - Mark