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How ViewPart response to some EditorPart Action [message #513830]

Thu, 11 February 2010 07:43

Eclipse User

Hi,

I am writing an RCP Application and new to RCP. Now I have a editor part with a Text Control..When I select text in the Text Control and right click , a pop up menu will pop up. When I push one of the menu, I want to another viewpart can respond it? Now I am using following code to achieve this:

//In Editor Part
Event drawTextEvent = new Event();
drawTextEvent.data = selectText;
handlerService.executeCommand(
"command.drawText",
drawTextEvent);

//In command handler
IWorkbenchWindow window = HandlerUtil.getActiveWorkbenchWindow(event);
IWorkbenchPage page = window.getActivePage();
GlyphLayoutView layout = (GlyphLayout)page.findView(GlyphLayout.ID);
layout.call(event.getTrigger().data);
............

I wonder if there is better way to achieve this between editor and viewpart? Because some parameter should be passed to viewpart.

Re: How ViewPart response to some EditorPart Action [message #513839 is a reply to message #513830]

Thu, 11 February 2010 03:32

Eclipse User

What you are doing is all API and will work fine.

One way to "communicate" between the editor and view is to have the
editor simply post its selection, and have the view react to selection
change events.

Another would be to simply move that code into your editor and call that
from your handler.

updateView() {
GlyphLayoutView layout = (GlyphLayout) getSite()
.getPage().findView(GlyphLayout.ID);
layout.call(selectedText);
}

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Re: How ViewPart response to some EditorPart Action [message #513841 is a reply to message #513839]

Thu, 11 February 2010 08:37

Eclipse User

is the "One way to "communicate" between the editor and view is to have the
editor simply post its selection, and have the view react to selection
change events.
" means add a selection listener in the viewer and react the selection changed?

I am aim to look for a relative loose-coupled communication in the editor and viewer? Since the code I wrote is not very well-designed first my first sense and hard to transfer and refactor Smile