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Set focus in properties view [message #335829]

Sat, 02 May 2009 18:06

Eclipse User

Hi,

I display the Properties View with
PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().
getActivePage().showView("org.eclipse.ui.views.PropertySheet ");

How can I achieve that the focus (cursor) is on a special attribute, e.g.
the name attribute?

Thanks,
Michaek

Re: Set focus in properties view [message #335830 is a reply to message #335829]

Sat, 02 May 2009 21:02

Eclipse User

I'm not sure there is API to achieve this. I poked around on
PropertySheetPage and didn't see anything. Ditto on the underlying
PropertySheetViewer. Feel free to have a look yourself though.

You may want to check out the tabbed properties view, which is more
flexible.

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Tabbed-Properties/ta bbed_properties_view.html

Cheers
Ben

Michael wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I display the Properties View with
> PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().
> getActivePage().showView("org.eclipse.ui.views.PropertySheet ");
>
> How can I achieve that the focus (cursor) is on a special attribute,
> e.g. the name attribute?
>
> Thanks,
> Michaek
>
>

Re: Set focus in properties view [message #335831 is a reply to message #335830]

Sun, 03 May 2009 08:01

Eclipse User

Hi Ben,

thanks for your answer. It's already a tabbed property view since it's
about the properties of a GMF diagram.

Re: Set focus in properties view [message #335834 is a reply to message #335831]

Sun, 03 May 2009 17:41

Eclipse User

Probably the place you'll have sufficient information to find that field
is in the ISection implementation. You can extend refresh() to set focus
where you want it.

I guess it depends on when you want that field to gain focus. Only the
first time the view is opened? In that scenario you'd probably have to
make your logic a little smarter..

Hope that helps.

-Ben

Michael wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> thanks for your answer. It's already a tabbed property view since it's
> about the properties of a GMF diagram.
>

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