[news.eclipse.platform.swt] Re: activeEditorPart is always null (setActi

["Veronika Irvine" <veronika_irvine@xxxxxxx>]

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"David Black" <dblack@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>
> I have a MultiPageEditorActionBarContributor and a multi page editor with 
> 2 pages. Every time MultiPageEditorActionBarContributor.setActivePage is 
> called, the editor part passed to it is null. Each time I click on the tab 
> of one of editors, setActivePage is called but with null. I have tried 
> calling setActivePage(0) and setActivePage(1) and both times the same 
> thing, null. I traced the code and there is a CTabFolder involved for the 
> mutlipage editor, and the lookup of the CTabItem takes place, but its data 
> property is null. Should the CTabItem data property point to my editor?
>
> Is there an "obvious" reason for this? Something I have forgotten to do 
> perhaps ... my multiple editors work fine apart from this. Problem is I 
> have nowhere to direct my actions from the contributor if I cannot access 
> the activeEditorPart.
>
> thanks
> David Black