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iTextEditor position coordinates on the screen [message #1719033]

Mon, 04 January 2016 15:36

Samidha Paroha

Messages: 1
Registered: January 2016

Junior Member

Hello all,

I am building a plugin in Eclipse where I need to extract the textEditor part of the workbench as an image. For that I need to get the coordinates of the text editor part of the PlatformUI. I tried getting the same by textViewer. getTextWidget().getBounds() But I got the wrong coordinates and rectangle size. and hence, the wrong image.

I looked through the documentation but couldn't get a solution.

Right now, I am doing this -
IEditorPart editorPart = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().getActiveEditor();

ITextOperationTarget target = iTextOperationTarget)editorPart.getAdapter(ITextOperationTarget.class);

if (target instanceof ITextViewer) {
ITextViewer textViewer = (ITextViewer)target;
org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Rectangle r = TextViewer.getTextWidget().getBounds();

And then I am using Robot to extract the image through a screenshot.
Any suggestions on the present approach are welcome.

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