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Finding a view from another perspective [message #668492]

Thu, 05 May 2011 16:49

Eclipse User

I am wanting to find a view that lives in a perspective other than the active perspective. How can I do it? I have tried IWorkbenchPart#findView() but it returns null for all views not in the active perspective.

Re: Finding a view from another perspective [message #668513 is a reply to message #668492]

Thu, 05 May 2011 19:34

Eclipse User

SBS wrote on Thu, 05 May 2011 13:49

You have to get all of the perspectives and look for the view in each one. Annoying I know, but I think that's the only way to do it.

Like this:

		IPerspectiveDescriptor actPd = page.getPerspective();

		ResultsView rv = (ResultsView) page.findView(ResultsView.ID);
		if (rv == null) {
			IPerspectiveDescriptor[] pd = page.getOpenPerspectives();
			for (int i = 0; i < pd.length; i++) {
				try {
					getWorkbenchPage().setPerspective(pd[i]);
				} catch (Exception ex) {
					// Ignore, this can get an NPE in Eclipse, see bug 4454
				}
				rv = (ResultsView) page.findView(ResultsView.ID);
				if (rv != null) {
					break;
				}
			}
			page.setPerspective(actPd);
		}

		if (rv != null) {
			getWorkbenchPage().hideView(rv);
		}

Re: Finding a view from another perspective [message #668515 is a reply to message #668513]

Thu, 05 May 2011 20:42

Eclipse User

Francis Upton wrote on Thu, 05 May 2011 19:34

You have to get all of the perspectives and look for the view in each one. Annoying I know, but I think that's the only way to do it.

Thanks Francis, that seems to work quite well.

-sbs

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