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e4 Switch perspectives [message #1732578]

Wed, 18 May 2016 06:58

Eclipse User

I'm diving a little bit into e4 applications. I'm creating an RCP application and have several perspectives.

I looked on how to change perspectives and found a tutorial using a GitHub project (e4-perspective-switcher : https://github.com/jd-carroll/e4-perspective-switcher)

I was wondering if using this is still a good approach or if Eclipse has been involved and some other (better methods(?)) can be used in an RCP application?

How does the current workbench handle this or is this still a 3.x approach that's used there?

If there are better methods please point out where to find info.

Thank you.

Re: e4 Switch perspectives [message #1732678 is a reply to message #1732578]

Wed, 18 May 2016 19:41

Eclipse User

You can use the EModelService to find the perspective and the EPartService to switch it:

public class SwitchPerspectiveHandler {
  @Execute
  public void execute(MApplication app, EPartService partService, 
      EModelService modelService) {
    MPerspective element = 
        (MPerspective) modelService.find("secondperspective", app);
    // now switch perspective
    partService.switchPerspective(element);
  }
}

source: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/Eclipse4Services/article.html#selectedservices_partservice4

Re: e4 Switch perspectives [message #1732772 is a reply to message #1732678]

Thu, 19 May 2016 20:14

Eclipse User

Hi,

Tnx for the answer ! I'll have a look at this kind of implementatio.

Re: e4 Switch perspectives [message #1732847 is a reply to message #1732578]

Fri, 20 May 2016 14:52

Eclipse User

Are you using JavaFX. There is a JavaFX implementation in incubation.

Re: e4 Switch perspectives [message #1810545 is a reply to message #1732678]

Tue, 13 August 2019 06:24

Eclipse User