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Accessing Workbench StatusBar Contribution [message #499534]

Mon, 23 November 2009 05:01

Eclipse User

Hello Everyone!

I need to access the statuslinemanager contribution but not using a view
or editor. Is it possible? I'm frightened it is not :(

The way i dont want to do this is the usual you can see in tutorials,
articles or forums threads:

IActionBars bars = getViewSite().getActionBars();
IStatusLineManager statusLine = bars.getStatusLineManager();
IProgressMonitor pm = statusLine.getProgressMonitor();
pm.beginTask("Doing work", IProgressMonitor.UNKNOWN);
pm.worked(1);
.... the actual work is done here...
pm.done();

I would need to access it by PlatformUI.getWorkbench.getActiveWindow()
or similar because I have a launch() button that executes a code and I
wanna put a progress bar with custom buttoms in the status line.

Thanks in advance

Re: Accessing Workbench StatusBar Contribution [message #499701 is a reply to message #499534]

Mon, 23 November 2009 14:05

Eclipse User

Hi Juan,

It is indeed hard to find the status line manager. I don't know its lifecycle
but you have a reference of it in your ApplicationActionBarAdvisor.

@Override
protected void fillStatusLine(IStatusLineManager statusLine) {

super.fillStatusLine(statusLine);
}

Best regards,

Wim Jongman

> Hello Everyone!
>
> I need to access the statuslinemanager contribution but not using a view
> or editor. Is it possible? I'm frightened it is not :(
>
> The way i dont want to do this is the usual you can see in tutorials,
> articles or forums threads:
>
> IActionBars bars = getViewSite().getActionBars();
> IStatusLineManager statusLine = bars.getStatusLineManager();
> IProgressMonitor pm = statusLine.getProgressMonitor();
> pm.beginTask("Doing work", IProgressMonitor.UNKNOWN);
> pm.worked(1);
> .... the actual work is done here...
> pm.done();
>
>
> I would need to access it by PlatformUI.getWorkbench.getActiveWindow()
> or similar because I have a launch() button that executes a code and I
> wanna put a progress bar with custom buttoms in the status line.
>
>
> Thanks in advance

Re: Accessing Workbench StatusBar Contribution [message #499860 is a reply to message #499701]

Tue, 24 November 2009 06:59

Eclipse User

Yes Wim (& thanks for your answer),

I think an improvement would have to be done in this part because it is
a nightmare for developers using the status line to add/remove custom
contributions without using editors or views.

I have to do a task when user clicks over my "Run" button. I would like
to show a progress bar while the job that does the task is executing and
changing the status message.

Unfortunately It's hard issue with the current API. :(

Wim Jongman escribió:
> Hi Juan,
>
> It is indeed hard to find the status line manager. I don't know its lifecycle
> but you have a reference of it in your ApplicationActionBarAdvisor.
>
> @Override
> protected void fillStatusLine(IStatusLineManager statusLine) {
>
> super.fillStatusLine(statusLine);
> }
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wim Jongman
>
>> Hello Everyone!
>>
>> I need to access the statuslinemanager contribution but not using a view
>> or editor. Is it possible? I'm frightened it is not :(
>>
>> The way i dont want to do this is the usual you can see in tutorials,
>> articles or forums threads:
>>
>> IActionBars bars = getViewSite().getActionBars();
>> IStatusLineManager statusLine = bars.getStatusLineManager();
>> IProgressMonitor pm = statusLine.getProgressMonitor();
>> pm.beginTask("Doing work", IProgressMonitor.UNKNOWN);
>> pm.worked(1);
>> .... the actual work is done here...
>> pm.done();
>>
>>
>> I would need to access it by PlatformUI.getWorkbench.getActiveWindow()
>> or similar because I have a launch() button that executes a code and I
>> wanna put a progress bar with custom buttoms in the status line.
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance

Re: Accessing Workbench StatusBar Contribution [message #499922 is a reply to message #499860]

Tue, 24 November 2009 09:28

Eclipse User

The pattern for status is that the currently active part provides status. But if you want an executing task to show progress, you should look at the org.eclipse.core.runtime.jobs.Job API

For RCP apps that want to provide custom status (they don't want status per active part) they can contribute their own status control (and disable the default one).

PW

Re: Re: Accessing Workbench StatusBar Contribution [message #500014 is a reply to message #499922]

Tue, 24 November 2009 12:18

Eclipse User

Ah, I see. And for the user control to be in the status line you can use a
control contribution for the toolbar:org.eclipse.ui.trim.status toolbar.

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>
> For RCP apps that want to provide custom status (they don't want status per
active part) they can contribute their own status control (and disable the
default one).
>
> PW
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