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Open a View [message #501644]

Thu, 03 December 2009 04:06

Eclipse User

Hi all,
I need to open a view from another previous view.

Currently I'm using the next code:

ViewPart myView = (ViewPart) PlatformUI
.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow()
.getActivePage().showView(
MyView.ID);

which is working but only when I've defined the target view in the extensions section in plugin.xml.

I need the target view doesn't appear in any category. I need the target view be only accesible fron the first view.

When I remove the target view in section extensions I get the next exception:

es.myproject.cliente.rc.ui.views.menu.MyView
org.eclipse.ui.PartInitException: Could not create view: es.myproject.cliente.rc.ui.views.menu.MyView
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ViewFactory.createView(ViewFactory.j ava:157)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Perspective.showView(Perspective.jav a:2227)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.busyShowView(Workbench Page.java:1067)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage$20.run(WorkbenchPage.j ava:3816)
at org.eclipse.swt.custom.BusyIndicator.showWhile(BusyIndicator .java:70)
at org.eclipse.ui.internal.WorkbenchPage.showView(WorkbenchPage .java:3813)

How I could to do it?.

Thank you in advance.

Re: Open a View [message #501648 is a reply to message #501644]

Thu, 03 December 2009 04:17

Eclipse User

You have to declare the extension for the view, but you don't need to specify the category, it's optional.

Re: Open a View [message #501651 is a reply to message #501648]

Thu, 03 December 2009 04:24

Eclipse User

Hi Francis,
thanks for your reply.

I also removed the category in the extensions section but then the target view appears in the "Others" category.

I suppose that "Others" is the default category and if you don't specify the category your view goes there directly.

Do you know how to avoid that behaviour?

Re: Open a View [message #501656 is a reply to message #501651]

Thu, 03 December 2009 04:40

Eclipse User

David Crecente wrote on Thu, 03 December 2009 01:24

Hi Francis,
Do you know how to avoid that behaviour?

No, sorry, but it might be OK because realistically people rarely look there to open a view, so it might be that that's the best you can do. I could be wrong though.

Re: Open a View [message #501657 is a reply to message #501651]

Thu, 03 December 2009 04:40

Eclipse User

you can use activities to hide the menu entry completely

See http://www.vogella.de/blog/2009/07/13/eclipse-activities/

Greetz
Thomas

Re: Open a View [message #501665 is a reply to message #501657]

Thu, 03 December 2009 05:54

Eclipse User

Hi Thomas,
it worked for me.

Thank you.

Re: Open a View [message #501799 is a reply to message #501644]

Thu, 03 December 2009 14:50

Eclipse User

When creating an RCP application you can remove the workbench's "Show
View" contribution from your Application's ActionBarAdvisor.

You can always create your own "Show View" menu manager and only show
the views you want to expose to the user.

MenuManager myViewsMenu = new MenuManager("Show View");
myViewsMenu.add(myFirstViewAction);
myViewsMenu.add(mySecondViewAction);

Shawn

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