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Problem opening editor in startup perspective [message #467587]

Tue, 08 May 2007 13:10

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: bcmaxwel.yahoo.com

Sorry if this is a no-brainer, but it's driving me eight kinds of crazy.

My startup perspective needs to open one editor. However, the call to
get the active page:

PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActi vePage()

returns null, presumably because things are started up yet(?)

I can launch the editor from my ApplicationWorkbenchWindowAdvisor, but
it doesn't hide properly when I switch perspectives later.

This is probably something easy. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Brad

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Re: Problem opening editor in startup perspective [message #467601 is a reply to message #467587]

Tue, 08 May 2007 18:07

James

Messages: 272
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

The editor does not close when you change your perspective because editors
are independent of perspectives. Views can be opened and closed by
perspectives but all editors remain where they are.

Consider rewriting your editor as a view and you should be okay. Your other
option would be to hide the entire editor area in your other perspective.

-James

"Brad Maxwell" <bcmaxwel@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:f1psrc$1nc$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Sorry if this is a no-brainer, but it's driving me eight kinds of crazy.
>
> My startup perspective needs to open one editor. However, the call to
> get the active page:
>
> PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActi vePage()
>
> returns null, presumably because things are started up yet(?)
>
> I can launch the editor from my ApplicationWorkbenchWindowAdvisor, but
> it doesn't hide properly when I switch perspectives later.
>
> This is probably something easy. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad

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Re: Problem opening editor in startup perspective [message #467735 is a reply to message #467587]

Thu, 10 May 2007 13:31

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

Brad Maxwell wrote:
> Sorry if this is a no-brainer, but it's driving me eight kinds of crazy.
>
> My startup perspective needs to open one editor. However, the call to
> get the active page:

While you might want to consider what James mentioned, something you
could do is create a UIJob() to open your editor on startup and schedule it.

The current workflow will finish and then it will try and open your
editor ... but you'll have to be careful to only do it when the active
page is null or you would be switching perspectives and then have it
show up some time later.

Later,
PW

Paul Webster
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