[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Common navigator with custom data

["David Kyle" <davidk@xxxxxxxxxx>]

François,

David

> I think I found how to implement my own structure, but it implies having 
> all my classes implementing IAdaptable, and well...I don't think that is 
> what we want to do, at least not for now. I think I'm more gonna use the 
> default workspace and try to configure it...hopefully it might work.

We simply implemented IAdaptable to return null.

> But while we're at it...maybe you can help :)
> I dont't want to include the whole 
> "org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resourceContent" contentExtension, but I'd 
> really like to use some things that are declared in it...like the drop 
> assistant for example...and well...I have no way how to do this. Do you 
> have any knowledge of how I could achieve this ?

Do you mean implementing an org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent 
extension? It can simply be an implementation of ITreeContentProvider. If 
you are familiar with JFace you will have already implemented an 
IStructuredContentProvider. If you need to implement an F5 refresh the 
saving/restoring of expanded paths can get tricky.

I haven't needed to implement a drop assistant so I'm not going to be of 
much help.

Do try spend the time to go through Micheal Elders articles.

David