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Restarting workspace or workbench programmatically [message #290164]

Fri, 19 August 2005 05:14

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: swolk.ariba.com

Hi there, I'm developing a plugin that unzips a file to the user's
workspace. The zip contains edits to the .metadata files for external
tool launching, code formatter settings, etc. Once these files are
unzipped to the workspace I need to either reload the workspace or restart
the workbench. Is there a programmatic way to do this from a plugin?
I've tried IPlatformUI.getWorkbench().restart(), but that gives me
exception complaining about invalid thread access...

Thanks,
Scott

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Re: Restarting workspace or workbench programmatically [message #290170 is a reply to message #290164]

Fri, 19 August 2005 08:46

Stephen Rowles

Messages: 14
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

AFAIK getWorkbench().restart() should work (I've used it succesfully).
If you have invalid thread access sounds like you need to call it from
the GUI thread.

You will need to get hold of the display and then use a new runable,
something like the following should work...

Display.getDefault().asyncExec(new Runnable() {
public void run() {
IPlatformUI.getWorkbench().restart();
}
});

Scott Wolk wrote:
> Hi there, I'm developing a plugin that unzips a file to the user's
> workspace. The zip contains edits to the .metadata files for external
> tool launching, code formatter settings, etc. Once these files are
> unzipped to the workspace I need to either reload the workspace or
> restart the workbench. Is there a programmatic way to do this from a
> plugin? I've tried IPlatformUI.getWorkbench().restart(), but that gives
> me exception complaining about invalid thread access...
>
> Thanks,
> Scott
>

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