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

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

You're going to have to do some digging.  Check out 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.savePerspectiveAs(IPerspectiveDescriptor), 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.saveState(IMemento), and 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.restoreState(IMemento)

These are internal classes, so anything you do is a hack.  But these 
classes are responsible for creating the xml memento string that 
contains view layout.

PW

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