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Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #30960] Tue, 04 November 2008 09:38 Go to next message
Matthias Kohles is currently offline Matthias KohlesFriend
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Hey,

i created my own view in a plugin. This view uses a table viewer for
displaying the input by default. Now i want to implement an option to
switch from the table viewer to a treeviewer. I know how the viewers are
working but i don't know how i can change the viewer in my View. There is
no "setViewer()" method or something like that. Does anyone know how i can
manage this?

regards

Matthias

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #30996 is a reply to message #30960] Tue, 04 November 2008 14:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

On 11/4/2008 4:38 AM, Matthias Kohles wrote:
> Hey,
>
> i created my own view in a plugin. This view uses a table viewer for
> displaying the input by default. Now i want to implement an option to
> switch from the table viewer to a treeviewer. I know how the viewers are
> working but i don't know how i can change the viewer in my View. There
> is no "setViewer()" method or something like that. Does anyone know how
> i can manage this?

One option would be to use a org.eclipse.swt.custom.StackLayout as the
top-level layout of your view and then you can easily switch between two
children, a tree and a table.

Hope this helps,
Eric

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #31364 is a reply to message #30996] Thu, 06 November 2008 06:20 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matthias Kohles is currently offline Matthias KohlesFriend
Messages: 71
Registered: July 2009
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Hey,

thanks for your answer. I've found an example for the StackLayout on
google, but unfortunately it didn't work for me :(

There must be another way. I have already looked in the sources of the
eclipse SDK to see how they have implemented their search view. But i
found nothing.

regards

Matthias

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #31488 is a reply to message #31364] Thu, 06 November 2008 13:48 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Matthias Kohles is currently offline Matthias KohlesFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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a little update from me. I've now tried to set a new TreeViewer to my
viewer variable when i trigger the "View as Tree" action in the view. Then
i call the parent.redraw() method. So if i now trigger the action and
change the view size to trigger the redraw, i have both viewer in the
view, the old tableviewer and the new treeviewer... Is there a way to
repaint the view without changing the size to trigger it? How can i get
rid of the old viewer?

regards

Matthias

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #31523 is a reply to message #31364] Thu, 06 November 2008 15:08 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

On 11/6/2008 1:20 AM, Matthias Kohles wrote:
> Hey,
> thanks for your answer. I've found an example for the StackLayout on
> google, but unfortunately it didn't work for me :(

StackLayout is extremely simple - the Javadoc for it even has example
code. Perhaps if you describe what "didn't work" and show some code you
tried, then we could tell you what is wrong.

Eric

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #31695 is a reply to message #31523] Fri, 07 November 2008 07:42 Go to previous message
Matthias Kohles is currently offline Matthias KohlesFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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Hey,

schame on me. I now tried to use the StackLayout again. My very stupid
mistake was that i forgot to call the layout method when i switch the
viewer :(

the loop exception is fired by another, yet unknown, error in my code.

Finally now it works very fine.

Thank you for your help. :-)

regards Matthias

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #584210 is a reply to message #30960] Tue, 04 November 2008 14:59 Go to previous message
Eric Rizzo is currently offline Eric RizzoFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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On 11/4/2008 4:38 AM, Matthias Kohles wrote:
> Hey,
>
> i created my own view in a plugin. This view uses a table viewer for
> displaying the input by default. Now i want to implement an option to
> switch from the table viewer to a treeviewer. I know how the viewers are
> working but i don't know how i can change the viewer in my View. There
> is no "setViewer()" method or something like that. Does anyone know how
> i can manage this?

One option would be to use a org.eclipse.swt.custom.StackLayout as the
top-level layout of your view and then you can easily switch between two
children, a tree and a table.

Hope this helps,
Eric

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #584397 is a reply to message #30996] Thu, 06 November 2008 06:20 Go to previous message
Matthias Kohles is currently offline Matthias KohlesFriend
Messages: 71
Registered: July 2009
Member
Hey,

thanks for your answer. I've found an example for the StackLayout on
google, but unfortunately it didn't work for me :(

There must be another way. I have already looked in the sources of the
eclipse SDK to see how they have implemented their search view. But i
found nothing.

regards

Matthias

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #584451 is a reply to message #31364] Thu, 06 November 2008 13:48 Go to previous message
Matthias Kohles is currently offline Matthias KohlesFriend
Messages: 71
Registered: July 2009
Member
a little update from me. I've now tried to set a new TreeViewer to my
viewer variable when i trigger the "View as Tree" action in the view. Then
i call the parent.redraw() method. So if i now trigger the action and
change the view size to trigger the redraw, i have both viewer in the
view, the old tableviewer and the new treeviewer... Is there a way to
repaint the view without changing the size to trigger it? How can i get
rid of the old viewer?

regards

Matthias

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #584465 is a reply to message #31364] Thu, 06 November 2008 15:08 Go to previous message
Eric Rizzo is currently offline Eric RizzoFriend
Messages: 3071
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
On 11/6/2008 1:20 AM, Matthias Kohles wrote:
> Hey,
> thanks for your answer. I've found an example for the StackLayout on
> google, but unfortunately it didn't work for me :(

StackLayout is extremely simple - the Javadoc for it even has example
code. Perhaps if you describe what "didn't work" and show some code you
tried, then we could tell you what is wrong.

Eric

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Re: Change the style (viewer) of a view [message #584541 is a reply to message #31523] Fri, 07 November 2008 07:42 Go to previous message
Matthias Kohles is currently offline Matthias KohlesFriend
Messages: 71
Registered: July 2009
Member
Hey,

schame on me. I now tried to use the StackLayout again. My very stupid
mistake was that i forgot to call the layout method when i switch the
viewer :(

the loop exception is fired by another, yet unknown, error in my code.

Finally now it works very fine.

Thank you for your help. :-)

regards Matthias

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