| Dialog based application? [message #515935] |
Mon, 22 February 2010 09:47  |
 ulrichsg 
Messages: 5
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Hello all,
I am currently working on my first RCP project. However, the requirements I'm supposed to meet seem not quite to fit the offerings of RCP, so I am experiencing some difficulties.
I'm supposed to create a small dialog-based application which should be usable both as a separate program and as a plug-in for other RCP applications. (In the separate case, though, it should ideally look like just another dialog box spawned by the program that called it, which will most probably be a Windows application using MFC.)
Here's what I'm wondering about right now, and I'd be grateful for some advice:
1. When running as a separate program, I want to have just the dialog - no workbench window (at least not visible). Can I do this by setting its initial size to (0, 0) in the window advisor? Or is there a better way after all?
2. What would be the best way to open the dialog automatically on startup? The advisor's postWindowOpen() method?
3. How can I programmatically terminate the application?
4. I need to allow the passing of data to my program (eg. a filename). I know how to do this via command-line arguments, which is fine for the separate program case, but how do I do it for a plug-in?
By the way, if you think that Eclipse RCP is the wrong tool for this job after all, so do I... but it's a company policy that all Java applications should use it. 
Thanks in advance,
Ulrich
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| Re: Dialog based application? [message #534244 is a reply to message #534055] |
Tue, 18 May 2010 12:55  |
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laurieaw@us.ibm.com wrote:
> I have the same issue as this initial post and have a couple of followup
> questions:
>
> 1) You wrote:
> If it's a dialog, what about focusing on JFace+SWT (instead of full
> RCP)? JFace+SWT(+3 other jars) would allow you to launch a dialog from
> a java program.
>
> The advantage I see to using RCP is the packaging. This builds an
> executable that can be shipped. If I don't use RCP then I would need to
> determine how to build a deployable executable. Not impossible just
> curious if this a good use for RCP.
It depends on the cost you are willing to pay. If you don't need to run
the workbench, an RCP app that includes JFace, SWT, and enough of the
core.runtime to run includes 14 plugins, and runs almost 6 Meg. A Java
app including SWT+JFace and the few other bundles they need is about 3.5
Meg.
> 2) You wrote:
> For a more complex option you can write a "container" that generates all
> of your content. Use the container in your JFace+SWT to get dialog
> only, and host the container in a view when added to your RCP app.
>
> Can you elaborate on this some more and any known example of writing a
> container? I am stuck on how to launch my dialog from a view when I just
> want the dialog shown and not the workbench.
It depends. I've attached a small RCP app that only launches a dialog
and then exits.
It's not clear what requirements you are trying to satisfy. Isn't an
app that's a dialog basically an app with one window, one perspective,
and one view? Why would you want to launch an SWT dialog over an
Workbench Window with one view in it? Or is it that you'd like to have
a JFace dialog that you could launch from a minimal RCP app as well as
by command from an eclipse based IDE?
As for the container reference, by that I just mean creating a class,
MyContents, that takes the parent composite and whatever else is needed
to create contents on that composite.
Then MyContents could be instantiated in a JFace dialog or in the
createPartControl(*) of a view easily.
Later,
PW
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Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm
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Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
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