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Changing the displayed name of a View [message #444893]

Thu, 23 February 2006 03:57

Antonio Gurisatti

Messages: 109
Registered: July 2009

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I have a View (extends ViewPart) and want to change its displayed name (the one shown in the tab.

So in the views constructor I added: setPartName("My View");

Nothing happens.

I'd appreciate very much if someone tells my what is going wrong.

Thanks a lot.

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Re: Changing the displayed name of a View [message #444894 is a reply to message #444893]

Thu, 23 February 2006 04:05

Rohit Khariwal

Messages: 114
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

hi,
you can change the name in plugin.xml also
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.views">
<view
name="My View"
class="Project.View"
id="Project.view">
</view>
</extension>

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Re: Changing the displayed name of a View [message #444895 is a reply to message #444893]

Thu, 23 February 2006 05:14

Antonio Gurisatti

Messages: 109
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Sorry buddy but that is not a solution to my problem. The name of the view depends on other factors (like a selection from a tree) an so it must be changed dynamically.

And the question remains: Wy the instruction "setPartName("My Name") is not working?

Thanks

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Re: Changing the displayed name of a View [message #444896 is a reply to message #444895]

Thu, 23 February 2006 07:40

Daniel KrÃ¼gler

Messages: 853
Registered: July 2009

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Antonio Gurisatti wrote:
> Sorry buddy but that is not a solution to my problem. The name of the view depends on other factors (like a selection from a tree) an so it must be changed dynamically.
>
> And the question remains: Wy the instruction "setPartName("My Name") is not working?

Hmmh, if you had said "Why is the instruction setPartName("")" not
working, I would have quoted the specs of setPartName, which say, that
this makes the ViewPart assigning a default name. I also use dynamic
part name changes on ViewPart derivatives since Eclipse 3.0 and I never
had any problems with that. But I also never tried to set the name
**before** createPartControl has been finished, as you obviously do.
You should try to set the part name just after this life-cycle boundary
method and if you succeed you could make a request that this behaviour
should have been documented.

Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

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Re: Changing the displayed name of a View [message #444899 is a reply to message #444893]

Thu, 23 February 2006 09:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: pverma.gmail.com

Antonio Gurisatti wrote:
> So in the views constructor I added: setPartName("My View");

You say you have added the statement in the constructor. Try adding that
statement in the "createPartControl()" function and it should work.

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