Comments on Eclipse Tips - Prakash G.R.: Creating a custom Property View

Could you please tell me, how to show the "Va...

2011-07-04T11:58:45.860+05:30

Could you please tell me, how to show the "Value" in Properties View in multi-line table format.

@Dan,as a policy, no new apis will be added to the...

2009-10-07T21:46:19.983+05:30

@Dan,as a policy, no new apis will be added to the service releases. moreover, 3.4 is out of support. you can either port the change yourself and use that custom version of workbench or try to have your own properties view.

@Prakash This would be ideal, but my product is ru...

2009-10-07T19:41:13.164+05:30

@Prakash
This would be ideal, but my product is running on 3.4.2 and I do not see us upgrading from this within the next few months.
How would the same be accomplished on 3.4.x?

Thanks

@Dan, I suppose you need this: http://blog.ecl...

2009-10-07T09:45:11.528+05:30

@Dan,
I suppose you need this: http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/09/excluding-view-from-properties-view.html

In my application I have multiple editors. One edi...

2009-10-07T04:37:56.496+05:30

In my application I have multiple editors. One editor uses the GEF palette. However when focus moves to the GEF editor I do not want selection to change in the properties view. Is there a way to tell the properties view to 'ignore GEF palette?.. Basically when focus is on the palette just show the properties for the currently selected item in the editor.
Thanks

Thanks for the quick reply, Prakash. I'm not s...

2009-09-23T03:32:24.056+05:30

Thanks for the quick reply, Prakash. I'm not sure what the problem was, but I am able to see the icon now and the action is working pretty well. Its not the issue with menubarpath and toolbarPath, for sure. Well, do you have any suggestion to read the entries in the properties view? I see that it invokes the getPropertyDescriptors from the IPropertySource, and populates the view. But can we access those details once it is populated?

Thanks again!
Murali

@Murali, You might be missing something. It wor...

2009-09-22T21:50:13.574+05:30

@Murali,
You might be missing something. It works fine for me:

<viewContribution
id="com.eclipse-tips.openProject.viewContribution"
targetID="org.eclipse.ui.views.PropertySheet">
<action
class="viewactiondelegate.ViewActionDelegate1"
icon="icons/sample.gif"
id="com.eclipse-tips.openProject.action1"
label="My Action"
menubarPath="additions"
style="push"
toolbarPath="additions">
</action>
</viewContribution>
</extension>

Probably the menubarPath & toolbarPath?

Hi Prakash, This is a very informational topic. I...

2009-09-22T19:59:21.118+05:30

Hi Prakash,

This is a very informational topic. I'm trying to add a custom action to the properties view. I'm extending the viewActions, but couldn't see the icon on the Properties tool bar. In debug mode, I see that the class that I'm using for viewActions is being initiated. Not sure where I'm going wrong. Can you throw some light in here?

Thanks and Regards,
Murali

Thanks. This was very helpful

2009-09-13T05:40:02.359+05:30

Thanks. This was very helpful

You have to override the methods and make sure tha...

2009-07-29T14:30:26.516+05:30

You have to override the methods and make sure that your specific view is the one that supplies PropertySource

Great, but how do you make it show properties for ...

2009-07-29T14:15:36.167+05:30

Great, but how do you make it show properties for a specific view even if that view is not selected? (Provided it's active and visible, ideally)