[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Adding a view to a perspective

["Rahul Kamdar" <rtkamdar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Derek,

I think the workaround suggested by Paul is a pretty neat way of doing what 
you wish to achieve. If you have any other issue with the same, maybe you 
could post that.

Rahul

"Derek" <subs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:486B3B9F.8020004@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Rahul Kamdar wrote:
>> To add a view to an already existing perspective you can use the 
>> org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions extension point in your plugin.xml 
>> where you can specify the perspective and the view you wish to add. But 
>> doing this will add the view if not present (there won't be any prompts 
>> or messages to the user). I am not sure how to do that (regarding giving 
>> the user a message and then accordingly bringing the view up).
>>
>> I don't really get your notion of the app getting updated when run once 
>> so not sure what will really help you!
>>
>> Hope the perspectiveExtensions helps,
>> Rahul
>>
>>
>> "Derek" <subs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
>> news:g4d939$bf0$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I have created an update to my RCP app that has added a view to a 
>>> perspective. If the app has not been run before (i.e. a clean install), 
>>> the view appears as I expect. However, if the app has been run before 
>>> (i.e it has been updated), then the new view does not appear (as the 
>>> stored perspectives 'state' does not contain the view). I can get the 
>>> view to appear by reseting the perspective.
>>>
>>> I want to detect this situation (the update case) and issue a message to 
>>> the user that a new view is available and ask them if they want to 
>>> display it.
>>>
>>> Does anybody have some ideas that will point me in the right direction 
>>> for implementing this?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Derek
>>
>>
> Rahul,
>
> Thanks, but I already have a perspective extension that works.
>
> My issue is this:
> I already have a product that customers have installed. I am providing an 
> update to that product (via the Eclipse update mechanism). In this update, 
> I have added a new view to an existing perspective. This new view does not 
> appear until the customer does a "reset perspective". I would like to 
> automate this process, so that the users doesn't have to do anything.
>
> -- 
> Derek