[news.eclipse.tools] Re: isDirty update

[pebraert@xxxxxxxxx (Peter Ebraert)]

OK, sorry... I've found it. It's working!
- firePropertyChange is a protected method of WorkbenchPart
- PROP_DIRTY is a static field of MultiPageEditorPart

But still I think the FAQ is not listed in the Eclipse FAQ's ;-)

Cheers,

Peter


Andrew McCullough wrote:


> 1.  Please post such questions to eclipse.platform -- this newsgroup is
> deprecated.

> 2. This is a FAQ.  Any time you change the value returned by isDirty() you
> need to add the line "firePropertyChange(PROP_DIRTY)" to tell the Workbench
> to re-query that method.

> -Andrew

> "Peter Ebraert" <pebraert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:b8riin$5p9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a multipage editor. One page has an XML editor attached to it to
> > display the source of the file (the source page).
> >
> > The second page (the overview page) shows a form view (a lot of widgets)
> > on that XML file. When the user changes something in that form, an isDirty
> > field of the MultiPageEditor is set to true.
> >
> > The MultiPageEditor's isDirty() method uses that isDirty value to decide
> > whether the file is dirty.
> >
> > When the user changes makes some changes in the form, and then changes
> > from the overview page to the source page, the title of the editor gets
> > the * at the beginning of it. That is cool and OK.
> >
> > But I'd like to see that * to indicate something was changed, imediately
> > after the user modifies something in the form. Can somebody tell me how to
> > do that?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Peter
> >