[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Associate Editor with Perspective

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dave wrote on Fri, 04 September 2009 14:17
> Thanks for your help.  I'm a novice when it comes to Eclipse RCP 
> development, so I was wondering if you could point me in the right 
> direction.  What is the recommended way for me to set it up so that I can 
> react to perspective events?  In other words, do I add a listener to 
> something?  If so, what type of listener, what would I be adding it to, 
> and when would I add it?  (i.e., during workbench initialization?  
> workbench page initialization?  what classes/methods represent those 
> actions in the workbench lifecycle anyway?)
>
> Also, is there a method I can call that will return all of the open 
> editors, including hidden ones?
>
> Thanks again for being patient with me!
>
> Regards,
> Dave


This API was added for the most hard-core of hard-core RCP developers.  It is not how we recommend using editors and the editor areas (the questions you've posted are just the beginning, believe me :)

That being said, I would consider writing your editor+perspective management code in its own plugin.  Try and limit what else it does, and then to get the behaviour your want (in a RCP app) you would look at starting up your management functionality in your workbench advisor (it has post startup methods).

You need to listen to callbacks in the IPerspectiveListener* methods, and you might even need an IPartlListener2 listener in order to tell when editors are opened/closed.


PW

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