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Moving a part opened by Eclipse's Open View menu [message #1772786]

Fri, 15 September 2017 08:46

Ovidiu Tomuta

Messages: 12
Registered: September 2017

Junior Member

When opening a part using the default "Window-Open View-Other.." menu, the newly created part acts as a top window, so it contains no parent. Because of this I can't move it using the EModelService move() method. I want to move it a specific partstack. Is there any other way I can do this programmatically ?

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Re: Moving a part opened by Eclipse's Open View menu [message #1772970 is a reply to message #1772786]

Tue, 19 September 2017 15:14

Eclipse User

I'm not sure what you mean by "as a top window", but if you look at the implementation of EModelService#move() you'll see that it's really just two simple operations: