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Unable to use instance of IEditorPart (Eclipse text editor) in JavaFX application [message #1725817]

Mon, 07 March 2016 21:34

Colin Donovan

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Registered: February 2016

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I am creating a plugin whereby when a handler is called an instance of IEditorPart is instantiated with the current editor which is the eclipse text editor in this context.

editor = HandlerUtil.getActiveEditor(event);

This instance is passed to a JavaFX application through starting an eclipse job. Before Application.launch() is called there is access to this instance of the eclipse text editor, however, after it is called a null pointer exception occurs when trying to use it.

Does this instance get removed when the JavaFX application enters its life-cycle? Is there anyway to use this instance as it is a vital element in the plugin as I am using tables and when an element of the table is clicked, the eclipse editor is brought into scope and then this element clicked is wrote to the screen.

I am aware the eclipse text editor is SWT therefore there may be complications using both SWT and JavaFX together. Any ideas? I can post full code if the question is too ambiguous.

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Re: Unable to use instance of IEditorPart (Eclipse text editor) in JavaFX application [message #1725868 is a reply to message #1725817]

Tue, 08 March 2016 07:33

Dirk Fauth

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Registered: July 2012

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IEditorPart and HandlerUtil are not only SWT related, they are also Eclipse 3 which is interpreted by the compatibility layer. AFAIK e(fx)clipse does neither support SWT nor Eclipse 3.x API.

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