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Change view icon programmatically [message #527298]

Wed, 14 April 2010 17:25

Ken

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Registered: July 2009

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I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can overrride
getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the view becomes
active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still use what is
defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to set this? I
would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart since that
isn't until the view becomes active.

Thanks!

- Ken

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Re: Change view icon programmatically [message #527347 is a reply to message #527298]

Wed, 14 April 2010 22:01

Wim Jongman

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi Ken,

This might be is just a thought experiment and ugly but try to get the
iviewdescriptor and create the view.

PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getViewRegistry().find("id.view").createView();

This should call your method.

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> I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can
overrride
> getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the view becomes
> active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still use what is
> defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to set this? I
> would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart since that
> isn't until the view becomes active.
>
> Thanks!
>
> - Ken

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Re: Change view icon programmatically [message #527516 is a reply to message #527298]

Thu, 15 April 2010 13:55

Paul Webster

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Location: Ottawa

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Ken Prole wrote:
> I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can
> overrride getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the
> view becomes active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still
> use what is defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to
> set this? I would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart
> since that isn't until the view becomes active.

No, you can't see the icon on an IViewReference (see another thread on
this that was active in the last week).

PW

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Re: Change view icon programmatically [message #527589 is a reply to message #527516]

Thu, 15 April 2010 17:09

Ken

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What's the date and subject of this message?

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
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> Ken Prole wrote:
>> I'd like to change my view's icon at runtime during startup. I can
>> overrride getTitleImage in the ViewPart, but that will only work if the
>> view becomes active. If it is hidden behind another view it will still
>> use what is defined in the plugin.xml. Does anyone have any idea how to
>> set this? I would think it has to be some higher level than the ViewPart
>> since that isn't until the view becomes active.
>
> No, you can't see the icon on an IViewReference (see another thread on
> this that was active in the last week).
>
> PW
>
> --
> 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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