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Customizing Toolbar Views [message #819467]

Tue, 13 March 2012 00:05

Christopher Riley

Messages: 9
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

Hello everyone!

I've started a new project in Eclipse 4 RCP and am wondering how to build my own customized toolbar (trimbar). We want control over the layout (multiple rows), button sizes and display of the toolbar.

I've tried a few things, but nothing seems to do the trick. Removing the trimbar entirely and replacing the view with our own customized SWT part in its place will work, but I can't seem to get the layout correct for doing this, as the parts default to stacking horizontally. It always ends up as a toolbar on the left side of the screen and a Partstack on the right side.

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Re: Customizing Toolbar Views [message #821208 is a reply to message #819467]

Thu, 15 March 2012 03:48

Christopher Riley

Messages: 9
Registered: March 2012

Junior Member

I'm still working on this issue. I've come up with something that is close to what I want to do by completely removing trimbars and trying to create a toolbar completely in SWT layouts, but am still having problems with creating something that will match building a toolbar for a main view.

Is there some way to extend the Eclipse Trimbar and provide our own implementation of its construction via DI?

Anyone's input on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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Re: Customizing Toolbar Views [message #821438 is a reply to message #821208]

Thu, 15 March 2012 10:56

Thomas Schindl

Messages: 6651
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You can replace the complete renders in e4 by contributing your custom
IRendererFactory (which typically derives from WorkbenchRendererFactory).

You can replace the default one by setting a bundleclass://-URI in your
product-extension point with the key "rendererFactoryUri".

Please note we currently don't have a highlevel API in this area so you
are working at a low level but TrimBars (TrimBarRenderer) are easier areas.

Tom

Am 15.03.12 04:48, schrieb Christopher Riley:
> I'm still working on this issue. I've come up with something that is
> close to what I want to do by completely removing trimbars and trying to
> create a toolbar completely in SWT layouts, but am still having problems
> with creating something that will match building a toolbar for a main view.
>
> Is there some way to extend the Eclipse Trimbar and provide our own
> implementation of its construction via DI?
> Anyone's input on this would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

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Re: Customizing Toolbar Views [message #824228 is a reply to message #821438]

Mon, 19 March 2012 12:15

Brian de Alwis

Messages: 242
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

If you're looking for something quick and somewhat dirty, you can make your own Tool Control. It's contribution object is responsible for rendering the representation.

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Re: Customizing Toolbar Views [message #882821 is a reply to message #824228]

Thu, 07 June 2012 09:11

Tom K.

Messages: 22
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

you can try to use the CSS attribute visibility.
It is still a little bit buggy in e4 - It ccould work for your case.

add these lines to your css file:

#org-eclipse-ui-trim-vertical1{
	visibility: hidden;
}

#org-eclipse-ui-trim-vertical2{
	visibility: hidden;
}

This should hide the vertical trim bars

Status bar would be: ...trim-status and the toolbar ...-main-toolbar
and so on..

Hope it works for you.

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