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PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage() [message #494644]

Sun, 01 November 2009 11:52

Raffaele Gambelli
Messages: 27
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi all

I would like to know why sometimes active page is null and so I'm not able to call findView method...

In particular, I would like that some of my views in the same perspective registered as listner to another view for some property changing.

And so, in the createPartControl method of each listner view I call:
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActi vePage().findView(....)

Then, if I close my rcp, when restart it, each view that does that call throws nullPointer because activePage is null.

In your opinion, which should be the exact initial moment to get active page for a view?

Thanks in advance and best regards

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Re: PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage() [message #494650 is a reply to message #494644]

Sun, 01 November 2009 14:34

Remy Suen
Messages: 462
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 11:52:08 -0500, Raffaele Gambelli wrote:
> Then, if I close my rcp, when restart it, each view that does that call
> throws nullPointer because activePage is null.

When do you call this code? In the constructor? Why don't you use getSite
().getPage() instead?

Regards,
Remy

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Re: PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage() [message #494678 is a reply to message #494644]

Mon, 02 November 2009 02:50

T. Wilhelm
Messages: 129
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You can also let your ViewPart implement IPartListener and get the active page in the method partOpened(). Dont forget to implement an if clause to check if the part which was opened is this part:

 /*
  * (non-Javadoc)
  * 
  * @see
  * org.eclipse.ui.IPartListener#partOpened(org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbenchPart)
  */
@Override
public void partOpened( IWorkbenchPart part) {
    if (part == this) {
      // here you can get your active page
    }
}

Greetz
Thomas

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Re: PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage() [message #495128 is a reply to message #494650]

Tue, 03 November 2009 16:06

Raffaele Gambelli
Messages: 27
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Thanks guys!

getSite() works, I always have thinked that it was the same as PlatformUI().... but I was wrong!

Thanks Thomas for your hint.

Best regards
Raffaele

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