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Creating and initializing a view based on some initial data [message #990197] Tue, 11 December 2012 11:30 Go to next message
Levente Mising name is currently offline Levente Mising nameFriend
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Dear gurus,

When a view is created, is there a way to pass in some information based on which it can initialize its component widgets?

For example, in my application I am trying to create multiple instances of the same view, each instance showing information about a different product. One of the widgets in this view is a ComboViewer which displays the product type (stock, future, option, etc).

I would like to initialize the selection in the ComboViewer to the type of the product that is used to initialize the view.

So far I was only able to do this as a two-step process:

1. Create/show the view using IWorkbenchPage.showView(viewId, secondaryId, IWorkbenchPage.VIEW_ACTIVATE) which returns a IViewPart

2. Cast the reurned IViewPart to my view's type and explicitly call an initialization method on the view:

((MyViewType) viewPart).initialize(myProductObject)

Is there any way to do this in a single step somehow, by specifying the myProductObject to use at view creation time? Is there any way in the view's createPartControl() method to retrieve this initialization data?

I am looking for a solution that does not use a static registry.

Best regards,
Levente
Re: Creating and initializing a view based on some initial data [message #990203 is a reply to message #990197] Tue, 11 December 2012 11:52 Go to previous message
John Steele is currently offline John SteeleFriend
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Registered: January 2010
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You could store the values in the application context. It's a good place to store data that needs to be shared/passed between views.

Instead of casting the view and then setting the data, the view could simply query the application context for the data it needs at creation time.
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