| Link with Editor in IViewPart [message #879474] |
Thu, 31 May 2012 05:39  |
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Hello everybody,
I want to add the Link with Editor functionality from eclipse to a ViewPart.
Is that possible or do I have to migrate mi Views into Common Navigator Framework?
I know that in CNF it's just a matter of adding an extension point an linking it to an implementation of ILinkHelper, but migrating my custom TreeViews to CNF is way to much work.
Is that possible, or do you have any suggestions to how I should handle this?
Thanks in advance.
Lori
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| Re: Link with Editor in IViewPart [message #880419 is a reply to message #879474] |
Fri, 01 June 2012 20:38  |
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So you are trying to link the selection from one view to another?
You have a few options, but I personally wouldn't go with CNF because where's the fun in that;)
Option - 1) The most obvious option would be to use the SelectionService. You can register the viewer from your navigation view as the selection provider, and the other views/editors that wish to listen to selection events can register a selection listener with the selection service.
See this article about selection service: eclipse.org/articles/Article-WorkbenchSelections/article.html
Option - 2) Maintain a Singleton object which contains a list of listeners to be notified on selection events. It would also maintain a flag indicating if views are currently linked. When the link command is executed, call the Singleton object LinkingUtil.INSTANCE.enableLinking(), which will then iterate through all the listeners that linking has been enabled. You could also store other information in the Singleton object like the selection object, so that listeners can retrieve it from there instead of having to maintain a reference to the navigational view.
See this article about Singleton: vogella.com/articles/DesignPatternSingleton/article.html
Option - 3) Use PropertyChangeSupport and/or databinding to allow other views to listen to property changes. Of course, when linking is disabled, you would not notify(...).
See this article on databinding:
vogella.com/articles/EclipseDataBinding/article.html
Option - 4) My favorite way to implement this is to use the EventAdmin OSGi service. You can post events to the EventAdmin service when a selection is made, and then register handlers to be notified when an event occurs.
See this article on view communication: tomsondev.bestsolution.at/2011/01/03/enhanced-rcp-how-views-can-communicate/
Hopefully these ideas can help you derive a solution.
John
There are a lot more other ways as well.
[Updated on: Fri, 01 June 2012 20:39] by Moderator |
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| Re: Link with Editor in IViewPart [message #883270 is a reply to message #880419] |
Fri, 08 June 2012 03:21 |
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Hello John,
Thank you for your response and your solutions. We already have a rudimentary "manual" implementation of the link with editor feature but our client want's to use specifically the out of the box solution from Eclipse.
So what I'm really interested in is knowing if I can use this out-of-the-box feature without having to migrate my custom TreeView's to CNF.
Your sugestions are welcome and I'm certainly going to use them as inspiration if using Link with Editor Eclipse feature in non CNF TreeViews is not possible.
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