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How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #506723]

Fri, 08 January 2010 17:59

Eclipse User

Hi, All:

I developed an RCP application and everything is fine. Now I am adding new functionalities and added the following two plugins in the Dependencies tab:

- org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.
- org.eclipse.wst.sse.ui.

Now in my application,
(1) File > New Project... menu will bring up two more wizard options in the list - "XML>XML" and "Examples>Editing and validating XML files".
(2) Window > Open perspective... will bring up one more prespective in the list - "XML".

I don't need these wizards and perspectives in my application. how do I hide them?

Thanks a lot for all your help!

[Updated on: Fri, 08 January 2010 18:25] by Moderator

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #506734 is a reply to message #506723]

Sat, 09 January 2010 04:55

Eclipse User

Hi,

I think that you can try to take a look at org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions

Regards,

Aurelien Pupier

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #506840 is a reply to message #506734]

Sun, 10 January 2010 16:51

Eclipse User

Aurelien:

Thank you for your response!

I understand how to use perspectiveExtensions to add my new Perspective. But can you show me how to use it to hide the perspectives that I don't want?

Thanks again!

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #507518 is a reply to message #506840]

Wed, 13 January 2010 13:21

Eclipse User

I had a similar issue. It is easily resolved through activityPatternBindings. This is how I solved my issue.
1.) Open your Plugin.xml and go to the Extensions page.
2.) Add org.eclipse.ui.activities extension.
3.) Create an activity and call it disable or whatever you want really and give it an id.
4.) Add an enabledWhen to that activity.
5.) Then add a with to the enabledWhen with the variable true.
6.) Then add an equals to the with with the value false.

Now your activity should look like this in the plugin.xml...

<activity id="com.XXXXX.XXXX.common.activity.disable" name="disable">
   <enabledWhen>
      <with variable="true">
         <equals value="false">
         </equals>
      </with>
   </enabledWhen>
</activity>

7.) Now find the id's of the wizards you want to disable. You can easily do this by opening the Plugin-Registry view (Window->Show View->Plugin-Develpment). Then search in the plugin-registry view for the plugin you added, org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui. You can also open the wizard you want to disable and use the Plugin-Spy to find what plugin it is coing from, (ALT-SHFT-F1), and you can click the Contributing Plugin link which will open the Manifest editor. Find that package and expand the extensions. You will find the new wizard extensions there with their ids.
8.) Add a activityPatternBinding. Set the activityId to the id of your disable activity.
9.) Set the pattern to: .*/org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.internal.wizards.NewXMLWizard You can also use a wildcard to disable a group since most groups will have a similar id(i.e. .*/org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.internal.wizards.*) but you need to be careful since this can disable things you might want.

Now your plugin.xml should look like this:

<activity id="com.XXXXX.XXXX.common.activity.disable" name="disable">
   <enabledWhen>
      <with variable="true">
         <equals value="false">
         </equals>
      </with>
   </enabledWhen>
</activity>
<activityPatternBinding activityId="com.XXXXX.XXXX.common.activity.disable" pattern=".*/org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.internal.wizards.NewXMLWizard">
</activityPatternBinding>

That should disable the XML Wizard. Then you should just follow the same steps to disable the rest of the unwanted wizards.

This binding will also disable the Editing and Validating Examples wizard...

<activityPatternBinding activityId="com.XXXXX.XXXX.common.activity.disable" pattern=".*/org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.XMLExampleProjectCreationWizard">
</activityPatternBinding>

[Updated on: Wed, 13 January 2010 13:28] by Moderator

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #507811 is a reply to message #507518]

Thu, 14 January 2010 13:08

Eclipse User

I definitely appreciate the detailed instructions!!!

1. Opening the Plugin-Registry view (Window->Show View->Plugin-Develpment) made my Eclipse freeze (3 times) and the Registry view never came up.

2. Tried (ALT-SHFT-F1) and there is no "Contributing plugin" link. I am using Eclispe Gallelio 3.5. Do I need to do some install to get Plugin Spy?

3. Menwhile I created another perspective, and even more unwanted showed up.

Thanks a lot!

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #507836 is a reply to message #507811]

Thu, 14 January 2010 15:10

Eclipse User

I had a similar issue with the Plugin-Registry view. If you let it load completely before you try to use it that seems to work. Just watch for the little progress bar in the bottom right hand corner. I am also using 3.5 and my plugin-spy looks like:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4004/4274991300_59b38ab64d.jpg

You have to have the wizard you want to block open then open the plugin-spy with the shortcut ALT-SHFT-F1 or whatever that shortcut is set to in your key preferences. Then there should be a link just like the one I highlighted in the picture.

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #507840 is a reply to message #507836]

Thu, 14 January 2010 15:26

Eclipse User

Many Thanks!

Now question on the syntax for the pattern: I see some people uses "\" before every "." while others don't. Any rules around the pattern that you can point me to read?

Thanks again!

[Updated on: Thu, 14 January 2010 16:00] by Moderator

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #507855 is a reply to message #507840]

Thu, 14 January 2010 16:15

Eclipse User

Sorry. I don't know that much about the syntax other then what I have done and posted already. From what I understand though the pattern is the plugin id/the id your binding the activity to. Or you can use the .* wildcard to remove that id from all packages. Most of the patterns I have done are like:

.*/org.eclipse.debug.ui.DebugPerspective
.*/org.eclipse.wst.html.ui.internal.wizard.NewHTMLWizard
.*/org.eclipse.wst.css.ui.internal.wizard.NewCSSWizard
.*/org.eclipse.wst.xml.ui.XMLExampleProjectCreationWizard

You should be able to search around for a good tutorial on the patterns though. This is a pretty good blog about them.
http://www.vogella.de/blog/tag/activities/

[Updated on: Thu, 14 January 2010 16:16] by Moderator

Re: How to hide unwanted wizard and perspective? [message #655350 is a reply to message #506723]

Sat, 19 February 2011 13:12

Eclipse User

for another, programmatical approach check my reply:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=65534 9&S=6410ca96e014ce030a5b50dc08085115#msg_655349

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