| Workbench extension design question [message #121813] |
Fri, 07 April 2006 23:56 |
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Originally posted by: natalia.debow.unisys.com
Hello,
I am working on a project wher we're developing an IDE for a number of
legacy languages. As part of this IDE we need to provide functionality to
support remote host management.
I need to design and implement the GUI for the host management dialog
box/window that can be triggered from one of the submenu options. The
host management dialog should not have OK/Cancel buttons, however, it
needs to be able to spawn a dialog (Toolbar option) asking the user for
the username and password. I am pretty new to Eclipse and VE. (I am
using Eclipse 3.1.2 and VE 1.1.0.1.).
After reading Eclipse documentation on extending the workbench, they are
suggesting using dialog boxes (different varieties of them for different
purposes). I noticed that the VE does not directly support designing of a
dialog box... Am I missing something? (I've read a few posts mentioning
this limitation, but I haven't found a workaround for this).... Any
working suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Also, in order to design my host management dialog/window form (no
OK/Cancel buttons on the form), what's the best way to approach it? Would
creating a shell class and then instantiating it in some Action class that
is activated on menu option would work? I am concerned that there might
be some threading issues when running the workbench and at the same time
trying to bring up this host manager window. What's a good alternative to
using dialog boxes?
Thanks in advance,
Natalia
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