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Accessing ESelectionService From a Dialog [message #1752921]

Mon, 30 January 2017 17:37

Gabe Colburn

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Registered: December 2012

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In my application I've created reusable Parts, that require access to the ESelectionService. When I use the Eclipse 4 framework to activate and show the parts the selection service is injected as expected.

The design issue I'm trying to figure out is if I embed a part (say Part 2) within a dialog (which gets launched from another part (say Part 1), what is the best method to get the selection service to the embedded part since it is not injected?

To make this more clear:
Part 1 Displayed Using E4 Framework-> User selects a button displaying Dialog 1 -> Part 2 is embedded in Dialog 1 by manually calling createControls.

It doesn't feel correct to pass the injected ESelectionService in Part 1 as a parameter to Dialog 1, and then set as a parameter in Part 2, which was embedded in Dialog 1.

I'm trying to allow Part 2 to be used as either a standalone Part, that has the ESelectionService automatically injected, or to be embedded in other Parts/Dialogs via createControls.

I'd would appreciate any thoughts on how to go about this without passing the ESelectionService through a hierarchy of Parts/Dialogs when I embed a Part within another Part or Dialog.

Thanks!

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Re: Accessing ESelectionService From a Dialog [message #1752985 is a reply to message #1752921]

Tue, 31 January 2017 17:08

Eclipse User

It's pretty rare to have a dialog either participate in the selection or provide a selection.

But you can create and populate your own IEclipseContext, either from scratch (EclipseContextFactory and then explicitly set the needed values) or create a child context from some other known context (e.g., the parent window's context via IEclipseContext#createChild()).

Brian.

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