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How to reuse the Properties View? [message #653951]

Sat, 12 February 2011 02:19

Eric Jain

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Registered: July 2009

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I'd like to reuse the Properties View in an application and have it show something whenever the current selection is a Foo object.

Unfortunately, it looks like I'd have to make Foo IAdaptable, so it can return a IPropertySource. Is there another way?

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Re: How to reuse the Properties View? [message #654082 is a reply to message #653951]

Mon, 14 February 2011 04:05

Prakash G.R.

Messages: 621
Registered: July 2009

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On 12/02/11 7:49 AM, Eric Jain wrote:
> I'd like to reuse the Properties View in an application and have it show
> something whenever the current selection is a Foo object.
>
> Unfortunately, it looks like I'd have to make Foo IAdaptable, so it can
> return a IPropertySource. Is there another way?
>

Not necessarily. See:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-Ada pters/index.html
for more info on how to use adapters.

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- Prakash
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