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How do i get the styling engine for non e4 projects [message #1860472]

Tue, 08 August 2023 12:45

Eclipse User

I'm attempting to take an existing plugin and have it honor the dark and light themes. The plugin is not an e4 plugin. I'm having trouble figuring out how to get the styling engine. In an e4 project it looks easy, you just use injection. Here is my lame attempt that didn't work

I'm using Eclipse 4.26

		IEclipseContext context = Workbench.getInstance().getContext();
		IStylingEngine iStylingEngine = null;
		if (context != null)
			iStylingEngine = context.get(IStylingEngine.class);
		System.out.println(iStylingEngine);

The styling engine comes back as null. This wouldn't be a great solution even if it worked, the Workbench.getInstance() is not public API.

How do I get the styling engine?

Re: How do i get the styling engine for non e4 projects [message #1860473 is a reply to message #1860472]

Tue, 08 August 2023 13:18

Eclipse User

This seems to work.

		
		IStylingEngine iStylingEngine = null;
		Optional<MApplication> optApplication = PlatformUI.getApplication();
		if (optApplication.isPresent()) {
			MApplication application = optApplication.get();
			IEclipseContext context = application.getContext();
			if (context != null)
				iStylingEngine = context.get(IStylingEngine.class);
		}
		System.out.println(iStylingEngine);

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