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how to place views when opening a perspective? [message #499796]

Tue, 24 November 2009 08:31

Luca Ferrari

Messages: 159
Registered: November 2009

Senior Member

Hi all,
I'm working on my first RCP application and I've created the following perspective:

public class SkillPerspective implements IPerspectiveFactory {
    public void createInitialLayout(IPageLayout layout) {

	String editorArea_eclipse_rcp_id = layout.getEditorArea();
	

	layout.setEditorAreaVisible(true);
	

	layout.setFixed( true );
	
	// add the views to the perspective
	layout.addView(SkillFamilyTableView.ECLIPSE_RCP_ID, IPageLayout.TOP, 0.33f, editorArea_eclipse_rcp_id);
	layout.addView(SkillTableView.ECLIPSE_RCP_ID, IPageLayout.BOTTOM, 0.66f, SkillFamilyTableView.ECLIPSE_RCP_ID);

    }

}

Now, when in the application I switch to such perspective I find a first problem: if I open one of the views, such views are placed from right to left, and not one at the top and one at the bottom. So my first question is how to get the views placed accordingly to the perspective.
The second question is: how can I open automatically such views when the perspective is selected? If I select the above perspective nothing changes in the displayed views.

Thanks,
Luca

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Re: how to place views when opening a perspective? [message #499945 is a reply to message #499796]

Tue, 24 November 2009 15:04

Luca Ferrari

Messages: 159
Registered: November 2009

Senior Member

I'm really getting nuts, since if I open the SkillPerspective I see views that are not connected to such perspective. In fact the SkillPerspective (see the code I posted before) opens the SkillFamilyTableView and SkillTableView, while in the program I see opened anoter view called ScoreView.
The following is an excerpt of the plugin.xml. Anyone can give me a clue?

 <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectives">
      <perspective
            name="Punteggi"
            class="hrpm.rcp.Perspective"
            id="Punteggi">
      </perspective>
      <perspective
            class="hrpm.rcp.gui.perspective.SkillPerspective"
            fixed="true"
            icon="img/skill.png"
            id="SkillPerspective"
            name="Competenze">
      </perspective>
   </extension>

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Re: how to place views when opening a perspective? [message #500019 is a reply to message #499945]

Tue, 24 November 2009 17:34

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: rjl.third-monday.com

Luca,

I have good luck with creating perspective folders for views. This
allows me to declaratively add views from other plugins. My main
perspective class:

public class Perspective implements IPerspectiveFactory {

public static final String ID_PERSPECTIVE = "com.bst.optimizer";

public void createInitialLayout(IPageLayout layout) {
logg.debug("createInitialLayout(): ");

layout.setEditorAreaVisible(true);
String editorArea = layout.getEditorArea();
layout.createPlaceholderFolder("left", IPageLayout.LEFT, 0.30f,
editorArea);
layout.createPlaceholderFolder("bottom", IPageLayout.BOTTOM, 0.60f,
editorArea);
}
}

In the plugin.xml of other plugins:

<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
<perspectiveExtension targetID="com.bst.optimizer">
<perspectiveShortcut id="com.bst.optimizer"/>
<view
closeable="false"
id="com.bst.optimizer.clientMgr.clientsView"
relationship="stack"
relative="left"
showTitle="true"
visible="true"/>

On 11/24/2009 09:04 AM, Luca Ferrari wrote:
> I'm really getting nuts, since if I open the SkillPerspective I see
> views that are not connected to such perspective. In fact the
> SkillPerspective (see the code I posted before) opens the
> SkillFamilyTableView and SkillTableView, while in the program I see
> opened anoter view called ScoreView.
> The following is an excerpt of the plugin.xml. Anyone can give me a clue?
>
>
> <extension
> point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectives">
> <perspective
> name="Punteggi"
> class="hrpm.rcp.Perspective"
> id="Punteggi">
> </perspective>
> <perspective
> class="hrpm.rcp.gui.perspective.SkillPerspective"
> fixed="true"
> icon="img/skill.png"
> id="SkillPerspective"
> name="Competenze">
> </perspective>
> </extension>
>

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Re: how to place views when opening a perspective? [message #500255 is a reply to message #500019]

Wed, 25 November 2009 14:04

Luca Ferrari

Messages: 159
Registered: November 2009

Senior Member

Thanks for the reply, but I had a hint watching the plugin.xml when I found the following piece of code:

 <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
      <perspectiveExtension
            targetID="*">
         <view
               closeable="true"
               id="hrpm.rcp.gui.view.ScoreView"
               minimized="false"
               moveable="true"
               ratio="0.95f"
               relationship="top"
               relative="org.eclipse.ui.editorss"
               showTitle="true"
               visible="true">
         </view>
      </perspectiveExtension>
   </extension>

I removed it and now the perspective switch seems to work correctly.

Thanks.

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