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Opening an editor without bringing it to top [message #323859]

Thu, 10 January 2008 10:03

Eclipse User

Hey,

is it possible to open an editor but not bringing it to the top. at the
moment i am working around this by saving the current one before opening
and switching back to it after opening, but that is no final solution
since it shows the openend one for some secs which is quite irritating. i
have looked through the Workbenchpage code and as far as i read it it
allways performs a bringtotop for the freshly opened editor. So the
question could also be: "is there another way to open an editor beside via
IWorkbenchpage.openEditor(), which does not bring it to the top?".

thanks in advance

Philipp

Re: Opening an editor without bringing it to top [message #323860 is a reply to message #323859]

Thu, 10 January 2008 11:08

Eclipse User

There was a thread or bug on this recently. There is no way to do that.
If it was a bug (searching bugzilla in Eclipse Platform UI would show
it) then it is an enhancement request.

PW

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Re: Opening an editor without bringing it to top [message #323862 is a reply to message #323859]

Thu, 10 January 2008 12:07

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com

have you tried:

openEditor(IEditorInput input, String editorId, boolean activate) throws
PartInitException;

where activate is false?

Philipp Simon wrote:
> Hey,
>
> is it possible to open an editor but not bringing it to the top. at the
> moment i am working around this by saving the current one before opening
> and switching back to it after opening, but that is no final solution
> since it shows the openend one for some secs which is quite irritating.
> i have looked through the Workbenchpage code and as far as i read it it
> allways performs a bringtotop for the freshly opened editor. So the
> question could also be: "is there another way to open an editor beside
> via IWorkbenchpage.openEditor(), which does not bring it to the top?".
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Philipp
>
>
>

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp

Re: Opening an editor without bringing it to top [message #323863 is a reply to message #323862]

Thu, 10 January 2008 12:10

Eclipse User

yes i tried that and as allready stated following the sourcecode of
workbenchpage implementation some lines get ommited with activate==false
but bringtotop is somehow allways called. Therefore i guess it wont be
doable via the workbenchpage and i will need another way.

Re: Opening an editor without bringing it to top [message #325556 is a reply to message #323859]

Thu, 21 February 2008 17:47

Eclipse User

I am also wondering if this is possible

If you find an answer please let me know

Charles

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