[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Initial location of a view

[sharon_dagan@xxxxxxxxxx (Sharon)]

Hmmm,

I'd like to make it a feature request then:
Allow views extending org.clipse.ui.views to provide hints as for their
preferred initial location.

Thanks,
-Sharon

David Springgay wrote:

> Sharon,

> > Is there a way to specify the initial location of a view (extension point
> > org.eclipse.ui.views) contributed by my plug-in? I'd like to specify that
> > my view be initially placed at the lower-right corner, like the 'links'
> > and 'thumbnail' views (supplied by IBM WSAD).

> When the view is defined in xml there is no way to specify the position. 
> If you contribute the view to your own perspective (an
> IPerspectiveFactory) you can define the position as you choose.  If you
> contribute the view to an existing perspective (via a
> perspectiveExtension) you can specify the position in xml.  Check out the
> extension point docs for org.eclipse.ui.perspectives and
> org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions.

> There is also a good article on perspectives at www.eclipse.org.  See
> "Using Perspectives in the Eclipse UI".

> Dave