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Problem with perspectiveExtensions extensionpoint [message #664596]

Mon, 11 April 2011 10:23

vinay

Messages: 26
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

I am using perspectiveExtensions extension point as follows :

<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
<perspectiveExtension
targetID="*">
<newWizardShortcut
id="id of new wizard">
</newWizardShortcut>
</perspectiveExtension>
</extension>

I want it to be applicable for all perspectives.When I launch this plugin from plugin.xml it works fine but if I export the plugin and put it in plugins folder of eclipse and launch eclipse ,
it doesn't work for JavaEE perspective. I cant see my wizard in JavaEE.

Please guide me.
Thanks in advance.

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Re: Problem with perspectiveExtensions extensionpoint [message #664617 is a reply to message #664596]

Mon, 11 April 2011 11:55

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

On 04/11/2011 06:23 AM, vinay wrote:

> I want it to be applicable for all perspectives.When I launch this
> plugin from plugin.xml it works fine but if I export the plugin and put
> it in plugins folder of eclipse and launch eclipse ,
> it doesn't work for JavaEE perspective. I cant see my wizard in JavaEE.

You can't just add a plugin to the eclipse/plugins folder, so you
installed it, right?

If you install it properly and you open a workspace that's already
created, you might have to reset your perspective in order to see it.

PW

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Paul Webster
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Re: Problem with perspectiveExtensions extensionpoint [message #665390 is a reply to message #664617]

Thu, 14 April 2011 14:09

vinay

Messages: 26
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

Thanks Paul. Reset of perspective works.

But what I observe is : when I install my plugin and restart eclipse my wizard gets added in File->new menu for all perspectives except the one which was active before restart of eclipse.

How to reset that active perspective programatically when eclipse is being launched after restart, so that user doesn't have to reset that active perspective manually?

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