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Getting default content on editor [message #68310]

Fri, 17 July 2009 09:49

Prasad

Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

I am newbee to eclipse plugin development and currently doing a RCP
project. I have a requirement in this project to display some default
content on the editor in the initial perspective when the application
started. In one of the books I read that editors are always opened on user
interaction. Is it possible to somehow trigger opening of editor with some
default content on application start.

Note: I don't want to do configuration saving. Need some default content
displayed in the editor which can be updated by external process.

Thanks
-- Prasad

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Re: Getting default content on editor [message #68545 is a reply to message #68310]

Tue, 21 July 2009 15:25

Martin Hardy

Messages: 10
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Have a look at the IEditorInput and IEditor interfaces.

You can use them this way :

IEditorInput fieldInput = new CustomFieldEditorInput(/*some parameters..
default content for example*/);
this.dataModelView.getSite().getPage().openEditor(fieldInput ,
CustomFieldEditor.ID);

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Re: Getting default content on editor [message #412180 is a reply to message #68545]

Thu, 30 July 2009 08:52

Prasad

Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Martin Hardy wrote:

> Have a look at the IEditorInput and IEditor interfaces.

> You can use them this way :

> IEditorInput fieldInput = new CustomFieldEditorInput(/*some parameters..
> default content for example*/);
> this.dataModelView.getSite().getPage().openEditor(fieldInput ,
> CustomFieldEditor.ID);Hi Martin,

Thanks for the reply. Where do I put this code? In other words, when do I
execute this code? I tried putting similar code in couple of places and
got segfault. I would like to execute this code just before it enters the
diplay event dispatch loop.

Thanks
-- Prasad

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