I use savestate method to persist view when closed. Ie init (site,memento).the view is restored when I call user defined method from create part control. Which access the memento and restore the tree view. Now I close and reopen the view, again the view is restored to the state it was previously closed. I don't want this othis happen. Once the view is restored and then for subsequent close and open it should not restore from memento. The problem is whenever the init method is called the memento is always there and it always tries to restore from memento.the view must be restored only once.I don't want to use static variable or session variable to remember whether it has restored. Once view is restored on further close and reopen of view it should go for default implementation.

Hi Manu and Marco,

The saveState method is called only if your view is open when the workbench shuts down and will not be called when the view is closed by the user.

The IMemento instance can be null if the view state was not saved from a previous session.

I recommend you tu use IDialogSettings to save/restore data of views between sessions.

The advantage of IDialogSettings over the view save/init mechanism is that you can control whenever you want to save/ restore persisted data of your view.

For more information see here

Kind Regards,

Hussein

Hi Marco,

The life cycle of view begins this way
1.init (site,memento)
2.create part control


In init method I save memento to a variable
In create part control I check if memento is not null then i call user defined method to restore certain things

Now if view is closed and re opened then again same life cycle is followed

In init method memento gets initialized and in create part control because memento is not null it tries to restore things

I am using Kepler eclipse 4.3 version

May I know how are you doing it.if once restored later it should not restore or memento has to be null

Hi Marco,

The life cycle of view begins this way
1.init (site,memento)
2.create part control


In init method I save memento to a variable
In create part control I check if memento is not null then i call user defined method to restore certain things

Now if view is closed and re opened then again same life cycle is followed

In init method memento gets initialized and in create part control because memento is not null it tries to restore things

I am using Kepler eclipse 4.3 version

May I know how are you doing it.if once restored later it should not restore or memento has to be null

How could I solve my problem then??
I don't want it to restore when view is closed and reopened

How could I solve my problem then??
I don't want it to restore when view is closed and reopened

Thanks for the quick reply
But when the view is closed I have dispose method called.can you please help me by giving sample raw code on
How I could achieve this.

Because when my view is re opened I create all the widget in view in create part control

Thanks for the quick reply
But when the view is closed I have dispose method called.can you please help me by giving sample raw code on
How I could achieve this.

Because when my view is re opened I create all the widget in view in create part control

//finds view reference (it will be null if view is not opened)
IViewReference viewReference=PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().findViewReference(parameters.getId(), parameters.getSecondaryId());

//shows the view
IViewPart view=PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().showView(parameters.getId(), parameters.getSecondaryId(), IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_ACTIVATE);

//view was not opened
if(viewReference==null){

	//passes existing parameters
	if (view instanceof ICustomView){
		ICustomView customView=(ICustomView)view;
		customView.initialize(parameters);
		customView.setIcon();
		customView.setTitle();
		customView.setFocus();
	}else{
		view.setFocus();
	}

}