[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Common Navigator showing expanded folders

["Francis Upton (News)" <francisu@xxxxxxxx>]

Try this:

PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().findViewReference().getView(false)

This gets the part only if it has been actually created, so you should 
not get those errors of it being in the middle of creation.

Mark Lovell wrote:
> I am getting closer...
>
> I tried 
> PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().findView(viewID); 
>
>
> But under certain conditions I get org.eclipse.ui.PartInitException: 
> Warning: Detected recursive attempt by part <my navigator view> to 
> create itself (this is probably, but not necessarily, a bug)
>
> This happens when my navigator is behind another view (but I can see the 
> tab) when I click the tab to bring the view to the surface, I get this 
> error.
>
> It appears that findView does more than simply return a pointer.
>
> I can do it by calling getViewReferences(), iterating and getting the 
> one whose id matches the common navigator. But there should be a better 
> way.
>
> So.... Is there another way to just get a pointer to the view? It is 
> kind of unfortunate that I have to get the common navigator from the 
> view id, because it is exactly the common navigator that is calling my 
> label provider.
>
>
> Help?


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Common Navigator Framework section in Platform Plugin Developer Guide 
(Programmer's Guide)

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/cnf.htm

http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/francis
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework_Use_Cases


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