Hi Eric, thanks to you. I noted down your instructions and will try to make this work for me. I most likely look into this after EclipseCon.
Cheers, Lars 2010/3/17 Eric Moffatt <[email protected]> > > Lars, if you want to put a part into a dialog you should be able to use the > rendering engine directly. The only requirement should be that the MPart's > context is correctly initialized *before* you call 'createGui(partComposite, > part)'. > > You'll need the appropriate MWindow's context and the rendering engine (get > from the application context through IPresentationEngine.class.getName() ) > > 1) Construct the context for the part using the MWindow's context as the > parent and set it on the part > 2) In the dialog's 'createContents' method create a Composite to host the > Part. > 3) call the rendering engine's two arg 'createGui', passing the composite > and the part > > The only problem I see is that we've extended the information the rendering > engine populates a new context with quite a bit (i.e. we expose all > interfaces like MUILabel, MContext.. to make them injectable). Depending on > how much of this extra ;local' info your part needs you may have to add what > you need to host the part into its context yourself. > > This leads me to wonder whether we should just add a 'parentContext' to the > current two arg 'createGui' which would allow the part's context creation to > go through the standard context creation code. > > Let me know if you're having problems getting this to work, it should... > Eric > > > > From: > Lars Vogel <[email protected]> > To: E4 Project developer mailing list <[email protected]> Date: 03/16/2010 > 10:24 PM Subject: Re: [e4-dev] Re-use of View in Dialog Sent by: > [email protected] > ------------------------------ > > > > Thank Remy, I'll give it a try . > > 2010/3/16 Remy Chi Jian Suen <[email protected]>: > > On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Lars Vogel <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> one of the target of e4 was the flexibl re-use of component. I believe > >> I once saw an example where a view was re-used in a dialog. > > > > It should just be a matter of creating an MWindow and then moving the > > MPart over to the MWindow. You may have to force some layout calls but > > that's the basic gist of it. > > > > So first instantiate a new MWindow via the EMF factory, then attach it > > to the application (or as a child of your top-level window), this > > should cause a new Shell to be instantiated, if not you can ask the > > IPresentationEngine to create the window (engine.createGUI(mwindow), > > mwindow.getWidget() should be non-null). Then just add the MPart as a > > children to the MWindow. > > > > Regards, > > Remy > > _______________________________________________ > > e4-dev mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > > > > > > -- > Lars > http://www.vogella.de - Tutorials about Java, Eclipse and Web programming > http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > > > > _______________________________________________ > e4-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/e4-dev > > -- Lars http://www.vogella.de - Tutorials about Java, Eclipse and Web programming http://www.twitter.com/vogella - Lars on Twitter
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