[news.eclipse.platform] Re: adding a view at runtime

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

While not a great solution, in RCP you could simply add the view 
definition to the IExtensionRegistry (using the USER token) ... then you 
can create your view and pass parameters in using the 
IExecutableExtension mechanism (all ViewPart subclasses are already 
IExecutableExtensions).

Another common way to handle this is to take your parameters and "post" 
them to your own view manager, using a unique key.  Then show your view 
as a multi-instance view.  The newly created view can use its secondary 
ID to retrieve the information from your own view manager.

Later,
PW


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