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Why is the cheatsheet standbypart part of platform IDE and not in a separate bundle? [message #475670]

Thu, 09 July 2009 16:53

Philipp Kursawe

Messages: 135
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hello,

I keep wondering if cheatsheets were ever intended to be used outside
the IDE. It seems not much separation has been done on this field yet :)
The standby part that allows to show cheatsheets from within an intro
contribution is part of the IDE platform bundle, which drags in its very
own CVS intro contributions (why are they not contributed by the cvs
bundles, who knows?).

So I guess the only way to get the standbypart is to copy+paste the code
from platform? Or is there any factory available that could create the view?

Thanks,
Phil

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Re: Why is the cheatsheet standbypart part of platform IDE and not in a separate bundle? [message #475672 is a reply to message #475670]

Thu, 09 July 2009 17:06

Chris Aniszczyk

Messages: 674
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Philipp Kursawe wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I keep wondering if cheatsheets were ever intended to be used outside
> the IDE. It seems not much separation has been done on this field yet :)
> The standby part that allows to show cheatsheets from within an intro
> contribution is part of the IDE platform bundle, which drags in its very
> own CVS intro contributions (why are they not contributed by the cvs
> bundles, who knows?).

As new requirements come in, components evolve. It seems you have a use
case to show cheatsheets within an RCP context and things weren't
designed well to make that easy for you. However, after some refactoring
and potential contributions... we could make this possible.

If you're interested to contribute, even better!

How about filing an enhancement request?

> So I guess the only way to get the standbypart is to copy+paste the code
> from platform? Or is there any factory available that could create the
> view?

Can you file a bug for this?

Link the bugs here too ;)

Cheers,

Chris Aniszczyk | EclipseSource Austin | +1 860 839 2465
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