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Change view icon programmatically [message #527298]

Wed, 14 April 2010 13:25

Eclipse User

I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can overrride
getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the view becomes
active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still use what is
defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to set this? I
would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart since that
isn't until the view becomes active.

Thanks!

- Ken

Re: Change view icon programmatically [message #527347 is a reply to message #527298]

Wed, 14 April 2010 18:01

Eclipse User

Hi Ken,

This might be is just a thought experiment and ugly but try to get the
iviewdescriptor and create the view.

PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getViewRegistry().find("id.view").createView();

This should call your method.

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> I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can
overrride
> getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the view becomes
> active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still use what is
> defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to set this? I
> would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart since that
> isn't until the view becomes active.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Ken

Re: Change view icon programmatically [message #527516 is a reply to message #527298]

Thu, 15 April 2010 09:55

Eclipse User

Ken Prole wrote:
> I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can
> overrride getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the
> view becomes active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still
> use what is defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to
> set this? I would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart
> since that isn't until the view becomes active.

No, you can't see the icon on an IViewReference (see another thread on
this that was active in the last week).

PW

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Re: Change view icon programmatically [message #527589 is a reply to message #527516]

Thu, 15 April 2010 13:09

Eclipse User

What's the date and subject of this message?

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:hq75ql$i82$1@build.eclipse.org...
> Ken Prole wrote:
>> I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can
>> overrride getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the
>> view becomes active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still
>> use what is defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to
>> set this? I would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart
>> since that isn't until the view becomes active.
>
> No, you can't see the icon on an IViewReference (see another thread on
> this that was active in the last week).
>
> PW
>
> --
> Paul Webster
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
> http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Re: Change view icon programmatically [message #527633 is a reply to message #527589]

Thu, 15 April 2010 15:42

Eclipse User

Change EditorReference image, April 10,12

PW

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