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Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448510]

Tue, 25 April 2006 05:51

Eclipse User

Hi
I was just wondering if anyone has used a Workspace in their RCP
application?

regards

Martin

Re: Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448520 is a reply to message #448510]

Tue, 25 April 2006 13:31

Eclipse User

Martin Holmes wrote:
> Hi
> I was just wondering if anyone has used a Workspace in their RCP
> application?

If you generate the RCP Mail app from a template, I think it uses a
workspace.

Later,
PW

Re: Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448524 is a reply to message #448510]

Tue, 25 April 2006 16:04

Eclipse User

I have, it maps to the osgi.instance.area property I believe.

James E. Ervin

Re: Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448547 is a reply to message #448524]

Tue, 25 April 2006 17:28

Eclipse User

Yep. Workspaces in the IDE are different OSGI instances areas. By
default, all instances of an RCP app share an instance are, but you can
specify different ones. It can be set via a command line argument or a
system property.

http://help.eclipse.org/help31/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/runtime-options.html
has good information about this.

Also, try searching this newsgroup for "workspace". You'll find many
similar questions and some code samples for setting the instance area
programmatically.

James Ervin wrote:
> I have, it maps to the osgi.instance.area property I believe.
>
> James E. Ervin

Re: Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448580 is a reply to message #448510]

Thu, 27 April 2006 06:14

Eclipse User

Thanks for the feedback, I really want to have workspace and the Navigator
View in my RCP application but not all of what the IDE plugin provides.

Martin

"Martin Holmes" <martincanbe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e2krp7$vvn$1@utils.eclipse.org...
> Hi
> I was just wondering if anyone has used a Workspace in their RCP
> application?
>
> regards
>
> Martin
>
>

Re: Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448601 is a reply to message #448520]

Thu, 27 April 2006 11:21

Eclipse User

I have just been checking out the Mail RCP template I see no obvious
references either declaratively or programmatically to workspaces.

If anyone knows of an example RCP that does I would be grateful! (apart from
the ide! :).

Regards

Martin

p.s

I just want a minimal Navigational View with an underlying file system as
the model. I suppose I could pull the IDE apart but I would prefer a simple
example RCP application.

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:e2lmep$t44$2@utils.eclipse.org...
> Martin Holmes wrote:
> > Hi
> > I was just wondering if anyone has used a Workspace in their RCP
> > application?
>
> If you generate the RCP Mail app from a template, I think it uses a
> workspace.
>
> Later,
> PW

Re: Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448670 is a reply to message #448601]

Thu, 27 April 2006 14:46

Eclipse User

Martin Holmes wrote:
> I have just been checking out the Mail RCP template I see no obvious
> references either declaratively or programmatically to workspaces.
>
> If anyone knows of an example RCP that does I would be grateful! (apart from
> the ide! :).
>

As I found out in another thread, it wasn't available in the mail
template :-) Sorry.

So I have an RCP app based on the mail app template, and I use a
workspace. AFAIK, to use a workspace you just have to depend on
org.eclipse.core.resources.

Then something like this should work:
IWorkspaceRoot root = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot();
IProject proj = root.getProject("org.example.project");
if (!proj.exists()) {
proj.create(null);
}
if (!proj.isOpen()) {
proj.open(null);
}

Depending on how you start up eclipse, you might have to put some
options in your .ini file, like
osgi.instance.area.default=@user.home/myRcpApp

Later,
PW

Re: Has anyone used a workspace in thier RCP app? [message #448744 is a reply to message #448580]

Mon, 01 May 2006 10:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: pabalakr.ifmc.sdps.org

I have created RCP application containing view which allows user to create and display projects from the workspace.
This RCP application doesn't depend on any of the IDE specific plugins.

Thanks
--Rajan.

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