Re: IWorkbenchWindow#getPages

[Chris <wibni@xxxxxx>]

Hi Simon,
thanks again for answering.

> A workbench window has only one workbench page.
Then the method
IWorkbenchPage[] IWorkbenchWindow#getPages();
does not make any sense at all, does it?!?!?
It will always return a 1-element array!?!?

> A workbench page has 1 or more perspective inside it.
> Only one instance of a view per type exist in a
> page.
>
> I've noticed that the findView method will only search the active
> perspective. Yet the javadoc does not indicate this. And there seems to be
> no other API to accomplish what you are trying to do.
This is somewhat strange: I thought "page == perspective", and the API 
confirmed me in that before 2.0.

Yet I cannot believe that it is impossible to get all perspectives of a 
page.

At the moment I use a workaround, I do
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().showPerspective(NAME_OF_PERSP, WINDOW);
that at least returns the page I am looking for, but shows the 
perspective unnecessarily.

Chris


> Open a problem report against Platform - UI
>
> Simon :-)
>
> "Chris" <wibni@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3D59F083.6050909@xxxxxxxxx
>
> > Hello Simon,
> >
> > Simon Arsenault wrote:
> >
> > > Use IWorkbenchPage.findView();
> >
> > sorry, you did not get me right:
> > I dont't have the IWorkbenchPage, that is my problem.
> > Again, if I use
> > aWorkbenchWindow.getPages();
> > I get only _one_ (the at last started perspective) page.
> >
> > Situation:
> > - the workbench has 3 perspectives opened
> > - PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getPages() always
> > returns only _one_ page although there are 3 perspectives started in
> > that window.
> >
> > That seems to be a problem since 2.0.
> >
> > So my problem is I cannot get the right page so I cannot call findView().
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > > Simon :-)
> > >
> > > "Chris" <wibni@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3D595CEA.80704@xxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > when I used
> > > > aWorkbenchWindow.getPages()
> > > > before 2.0 I got got all the pages (perspectives) from a (active)
> > > > workbench window.
> > > >
> > > > Since 2.0 getPages() gets me only _one_ page (the at last started
> > > > perspective) though there are many other perspectives open in that
> window.
>
> > > > I discovered a note at javadoc for IWorkbenchWindow#openPage: "Note:
> > > > Since release 2.0, a window is limited to contain at most one page...".
> > > > I don't understand how am I supposed to get _all_ perspectives from a
> > > > workbench window now. How can a window limited to contain at most one
> > > > page=perspective???
> > > >
> > > > My Szenario: a workbench window has several perspectives opened, I want
> > > > to get the java perspective, there the package viewer and look whats
> > > > selected there. How to do that since 2.0?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you,
> > > >
> > > > Chris