[news.eclipse.platform] Re: How to access an editor's SourceViewer and A

[AL <unbonnevie@xxxxxxxxx>]

AL wrote:
> > TextEditor activeEd = 
> > (TextEditor)PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().getActiveEditor(); 
> >
> > TextFileDocumentProvider tfdp = 
> > (TextFileDocumentProvider)activeEd.getDocumentProvider();
> > Document doc = (Document)tfdp.getDocument(Object obj);
> > AnnotationModel am = (AnnotationModel)tfdp.getAnnotationModel(Object 
> > obj);
> >
> > The problem I have is I don't know what Object it wants and the 
> > documentation is not helpful in this area.
>
> Once you have the TextEditor just call getSourceViewer() to get 
> ISourceViewer, since the method is from AbstractTextEditor, which is 
> extended by TextEditor.  From there just get the AnnotationModel.

Ah...Crab...getSourceViewer() is protected :-)  So, one way is to have 
your editor implement a getSourceViewer() that calls 
super.getSourceViewer().