[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Put setRootEntry(IPropertySheetEntry rootEntry)

[Randy_Giffen@xxxxxxx]

The intent is that implementors of IPropertySheetPage be free to implement 
their own controls and techniques for displaying the properties of 
selected items.

The workbench provides a default implementation (PropertySheetPage) which 
can be instantiated and configured. This class is API.

Other implementors of IPropertySheetPage may choose not to use 
IPropertySheetEntry and may not even have the concept of a root entry.




> The class org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.PropertySheetPage has the
> method
> public void setRootEntry(IPropertySheetEntry rootEntry);
> This is very useful for us because we can create our own entry that, for
> example, creates undoable commands when values are set or uses a special
> CellEditor API so that cell editors know the MOF resource set they have
> to create objects in.
> Could the method please be added to the interface IPropertySheetPage so
> it can become part of the interface API rather than just for the class.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Joe