I'm developing an Eclipse plugin / extension of another plugin. For this I need to access the information displayed in a view by the other plugin.
Is there a way to accomplish this? I've only found how to do this if the view I want to access is created by the plugin I am currently developing
(using workbench.getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().findView(MyView.ID);)
but this doesn't seem to be suitable in my situation as I do not know the ID of the view and do not have the MyView object.
Edit: The view contains a table with Strings / ints which I need. I guess it's also important to note that I have parts the source code of the other plugin available, so the class of the view.
Edit2: Because I have the source code of the other plugin, I was able to solve this - see comments.
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I would like to know. How I can dynamically choose view? I would like to make the PropertyGrid in my application. The PropertyGrid should must change when user selects object. As I understand for this task I have to use a DataTemplate but how I can dynamically create DataTemplate in code? The fact is that I use plug-ins and View and ViewModel for each plugin located in separate dll and so I can't directly write DataTemplate in PropertyesViewModel.
How can I make the edit properties for each plugin using the Propertygrid if I can't use a DataTemplate?
For Catel it doesn't matter in which assemblies the views / view models are located since it uses relative naming conventions. However, if you want to show a custom view based on logic that might reside inside a plugin, I think this is out of scope for Catel.
To solve this issue, you must implement a custom service that can communicate with the plugins and resolve the right view for a selected object. One solution might be naming conventions (if it's a PersonModel, you might want to show the PersonPropertiesView and PersonPropertiesViewModel). However, this must be a custom service.
I am making a tree viewer in Eclipse which would be used to pick a project and then I would find out the location of the project and zip it up.
I can currently display a tree which shows all the projects but it also allows you to expand the tree.
I am doing this in a wizard so I am unable to any dialogs.
I think I would need a filter but after using Google for a while I was unable to figure out how I could do this.
This is how I am currently making the viewer.
TreeViewer view = new TreeViewer(composite,new WorkbenchLabelProvider(),new BaseWorkbenchContentProvider());
view.setInput(ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot());
It's showing you exactly what that content provider is written to show.
The short answer is to setInput(ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getProjects()) and use the ArrayContentProvider with a ListViewer rather than the TableViewer.
The long answer is that the content provider you were using returns both the top level elements for the tree control using getElements() and any resource's children via getChildren(), and your case is not interested in the results of getChildren().
Projects are never nested so you only really need a TableViewer to show them. You can get the list of projects using:
IProject [] projects = ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().getProjects();
The same label provider will work.
After a quite long struggle with the known and unfortunately one of the few help articles about controlling properties, tabbed properties etc. (links below), I have decided to ask for your help.
What I need to do seems not that hard, but, well, I just couldn't bring the pieces together. So the problem is:
I want to extend the existing properties view of Eclipse (PropertySheet) with some further tabs, which will be later on filled with certain information from EMF objects, which in the end implement IAdaptable. So they can be queried for PropertySources and there are already a few tabs, sections extended in the corresponding project in its manifest, which are being successfully gathered from the Selection Listener of the PropertiesView.
Here comes the tricky part: I don't need to extend this project further, by defining further tabbed properties in its manifest. I need to implement a seperate plug-in project, which does this extension job for the other main project. I don't need extra views or so. This existing project provides the property sources and like sad has its own designed tabbed property view via its extensions.
I have actually become quite familiar with the concept of the views and properties, I can build some Property Sources and let the Properties View gather/show/manipulate the properties.
But this idea, letting an external plug-in extend the Properties View with tabs of an another EMF-based plug-in project, just can't get to me. I am really confused and don't know with what to begin with.
I would be unbelievably glad, if you could point me to the right direction.
Thanks a lot!
*Links:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Properties-View/properties-view.html
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Tabbed-Properties/tabbed_properties_view.html
First off - I'm not using MapKit. I'm using my own controls for something entirely different. But the annotation view is something I'd like to mimmic. I've seen other applications with similar views to indicate state or actions on other controls. However, scanning through the class library I can't find a view already in the SDK. Do I have to create my own custom view that mimics this look and behavior or does the iPhone provide a standard way of showing these annotations?
You have to create your own (or find an open source implementation). The annotation views are actually drawn by the map view so they don't work outside of a map.
Well I couldn't find an open source solution so I built my own. To save anyone else the trouble, the source can be found at
http://github.com/appsinyourpants/Pants-Framework/tree/master/Classes/Views/
I have a plugin which contains class A that brings up a view defined in class B via the following line of code:
(VideoLogView) PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().showView("Videolog.VideoLogView");
What I need to do in the createPartControl() method of the view (class B object) is access a method in the class A object.
How can this be done?
Thanks.
Look like you are facing the classic issue of "how do I pass arguments to my view" ?
This thread illustrates it best:
I was facing the same problem at the beggining of my RCP project. I was getting weird about the fact that there was no way to pass an argument to a view as the viewed model.
Why? Because (emphasis mine):
You are on an opened, pluggable platform.
You contribute to existing developments, others should be able to contribute to yours.
Therefore you will not "pass" arguments to a view, this would lock the whole thing into a non-opened design.
Instead, your view will ask the platform (or will listen to the platform) to determine which information to manage.
Other views (from other plugins that don't yet exist) might also want to manage the same information on the same event.
What you should do then is to ask the workbench for the current selection. I guess your view is opening on a double click action or simple selection so the object you want to manage in your view will be currently selected.
This is how you could retrieve the workbench selection from your view :
ISelection s = this.getSite().getWorkbenchWindow().getSelectionService().getSelection();
where "this" is a ViewPart.
Then you have to make your initial view (the one initiating the view creation from a given event like DoubleClick) a selection provider. A JFace viewer is a selection provider, so you can use it if you're using jface, or you can implement the ISelectionProvider interface when you're using custom SWT controls (that was my case).
The article "Eclipse Workbench: Using the Selection Service" can also give you some pointers.