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Contribution like PerspectiveSwitcher [message #499030]

Thu, 19 November 2009 10:33

Eclipse User

For my application I want to create a UI contribution like the perspective switcher. It has to be viewpart independent and shall be displayed in every perspective. First I thought I just have to add a contribution to the toolbar like shown here ( http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions/Widget_in_a_toolb ar) but with locationURI=toolbar:org.eclipse.ui.main.toolbar my application crashes with a long long stack trace. In ApplicationWorkbenchAdvisor I see that the PerspectiveSwitcher is hardcoded added. I thought (hoped) that there's a generic extension point to add other contributions like it.
My contribution will contain just some status flags valid for the whole application.

Many thanks for any help!!

Re: Contribution like PerspectiveSwitcher [message #499303 is a reply to message #499030]

Fri, 20 November 2009 12:51

Eclipse User

To provide something like the perspective switcher, you would probably use commands (like a radio button would work best).

2 things come to mind:

1) make sure you turn off the perspective bar in your RCP app

2) make sure anything you add to toolbar:org.eclipse.ui.main.toolbar is a <toolbar/> element that contains whatever else you want to show up (like your control, a dynamic contribution, or some commands).

PW

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