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Moving a newly created Instance of a ViewPart [message #482743]

Thu, 27 August 2009 14:21

drew frantz
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Registered: July 2009

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I have a method that creates mutiple instances of a custom ViewPart. After I
create a new ViewPart I want it to reside stacked in a certain part of the
perspective. What is the trick to moving the ViewPart to a different
location after it is created?

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Re: Moving a newly created Instance of a ViewPart [message #482884 is a reply to message #482743]

Fri, 28 August 2009 08:54

Paul Webster
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There's no API to do that (and the hackery I've seen is black magic).

You can create a placeholder for multi-instance views in the perspective. Just use ':' ... i.e. "my.view.id:*"

PW

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Re: Moving a newly created Instance of a ViewPart [message #482978 is a reply to message #482884]

Fri, 28 August 2009 15:22

drew frantz
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Registered: July 2009

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Thanks works great. Didn't understand how to deal with the wildcards in the
perspective, now I do.

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:h78k2e$tv7$1@build.eclipse.org...
> There's no API to do that (and the hackery I've seen is black magic).
>
> You can create a placeholder for multi-instance views in the perspective.
> Just use ':' ... i.e. "my.view.id:*"
>
> PW
>

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Re: Moving a newly created Instance of a ViewPart [message #483209 is a reply to message #482884]

Mon, 31 August 2009 11:13

Remo Loetscher
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Registered: July 2009

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Hi Paul,

I had problems with placeholder in perspectives using multi-instance views.

[...]
IPlaceholderFolderLayout createPlaceholderFolder =
layout.createPlaceholderFolder("org.placeholder.folder.test.id ",
IPageLayout.BOTTOM, 0.5f, IPageLayout.ID_EDITOR_AREA);

//this will NOT work for multi instance views
createPlaceholderFolder.addPlaceholder("*placeholder.folder.test* ");
//this will work for multi instance views
createPlaceholderFolder.addPlaceholder("*placeholder.folder.test*:* ");
[...]

I found the bug report
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=118693 and assumed that
there is no way to do that (still open).

But your hint with the ":" did the trick!

Thanks!

Remo

Paul Webster wrote:
> There's no API to do that (and the hackery I've seen is black magic).
>
> You can create a placeholder for multi-instance views in the
> perspective. Just use ':' ... i.e. "my.view.id:*"
>
> PW
>

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