Comments on: Eclipse Common Navigator Framework in RCP Applications

By: fstyle.de » Blog Archive » Using the Eclipse Common Navigator Framework in RCP

Fri, 29 May 2009 21:43:52 +0000

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By: Duncan Krebs

Duncan Krebs — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:54:33 +0000

Dude.. Thank you so much, this framework sucks for using alone in RCP, I was finally able to the images to be displayed after looking at what you did in your example WorkbenchAdvisorHack .. much appreciated. this was a good
wasted 4 hours

By: andig

andig — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:00:23 +0000

Eclipse Help has been updated with CNF info- including description as to how to use it in RCP applications:

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/cnf.htm

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:56:28 +0000

...my plugin.xml didn't come through for some reason. I'll try again, this time I've replaced the greater and less-than characters with square brackets. Sorry for littering you're page: [extension point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.viewer"] [viewer popupMenuId="mynavigatorpopup" viewerId="mynavigator"] [popupMenu allowsPlatformContributions="false" id="mynavigatorpopup"] [insertionPoint name="mygroup"/] [/popupMenu] [/viewer] [viewerContentBinding viewerId="mynavigator"] [includes] [contentExtension pattern="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resourceContent"/] [contentExtension pattern="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.resources.filters.*"/] [/includes] [/viewerContentBinding] [/extension] [extension point="org.eclipse.ui.navigator.navigatorContent"] [navigatorContent id="mynavigator" contentProvider="org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.workbench.ResourceExtensionContentProvider" labelProvider="org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.workbench.ResourceExtensionLabelProvider" name="gov.dsto.vipa.workbench.navigatorContent2"/] [/extension] [extension point="org.eclipse.ui.views"] [view id="mynavigator" class="mypackage.CustomCommonNavigator" name="Navigator"/] [/extension]

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:38:54 +0000

...and here is my plugin.xml section for the cnf: My CustomCommonNavigator does work fine - it just extends the CommonNavigator Class and overrides the single getInitialInput method with the following code: @Override protected IAdaptable getInitialInput() { return ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot(); }

By: Greg

Greg — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 23:10:28 +0000

Hi andig,

Thanks for getting back to me. I’ve read the links you mentioned but I’m still stuck. It’s been suggested that I define a viewer with a blank popup like this:

I agree that this should work, but I still get the copy, paste, delete, move and rename actions (from the “group.edit” and “group.reorganize” groups). If I define my own viewer popup insertionPoints and leave out those two groups, I get java.lang.IllegalArgumentExceptions: Group not found exceptions written to my log.

I am baffled as to why those two groups insist on being there. I am desperate for a solution because this issue has now become critical blocker to my project.

Many thanks

Greg.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:46:40 +0000

Thanks for the reply. I tried setting allowPlatformContributions to false, but the group.edit and group.reorganise groups still seem to be being populated! I didn’t expect that!

I’m unsure how to stop it, because I need to prevent or override delete / copy / paste types of actions. I’ve tried not adding the insertionPoint for group.edit and group.reorganize – which works, but it writes out “group not found” exceptions to the log. From a support perspective, that isn’t acceptable.

Any suggestions, this is starting to become a major issue for the project…

By: andig

andig — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:22:16 +0000

And this for an alternative approach:

http://rcpquickstart.wordpress.com/2007/04/20/using-the-common-navigator-framework-in-an-rcp-application/

By: andig

andig — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:10:55 +0000

Also see this regarding restoring editor state:

http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=30125

This is the reason why createElement and the navigator root classed are needed, while not really utilized in the example I had provided.

By: andig

andig — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 11:08:40 +0000

Check this out, too:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145233

Francis is planning to spend some efforts on this.