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Bug 351366

Summary:	Allow the hosting of Views and Editors independent of the presentation
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Eric Moffatt <emoffatt>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, john.arthorne, remy.suen
Version:	4.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Eric Moffatt

2011-07-06 15:11:03 EDT

We have to be able to host a View or Editor in Dialogs / Wizards / within some other part...

The main use case for this is replacing the left-side of the JDT compare editor with a *real* editor. This will showcase 4.x's flexibility.

At the moment this is very difficult. For example the SelectionService only sends notifications when the active part's selection changes...and you can't make a 'discreet' part active (it has no parent, causing issues with 'bringToTop'...).

Comment 1 Eric Moffatt

2011-09-15 12:52:47 EDT

M2 is done...

Comment 2 Eric Moffatt

2011-12-01 15:27:20 EST

Pushed in >20111201.

commit 0d6cd94911dcb221379022563d11ed7f4c71ff91

This is comprised of two parts:

1) Adding a 'hostElement' call to the EModelService (which takes care of the boiler-plate needed to render the hosted element) as well as a corresponding 'isHostedElement' method (used by the PartServiceImpl to allow activation of hosted elements.

2) Changing the EModelService to be a singleton service at the E4Application context's level. There was no need to be creating multiple instances and now that it registers a model listener (to clean up hosted elements on close) we don't want to even instantiate the multiple versions any more (so we only have one listener).

Comment 3 Eric Moffatt

2011-12-09 11:32:08 EST


Moving to M5. This could likely be marked fixed but needs some more soak time...

Comment 4 John Arthorne

2013-08-28 15:39:05 EDT

(In reply to comment #3)
> 
> Moving to M5. This could likely be marked fixed but needs some more soak
> time...

Eric can you clarify what this means. Does hosting of views/editors in dialogs work, or not.

Comment 5 Eric Moffatt

2013-08-29 14:45:55 EDT

The basics work but I was hoping that someone would try it out and provide feedback. I haven't had time to test this at all thoroughly.

If we can finally get to doing some forward looking enhancements the first candidate should be putting an instance of the 'ErrorLog' view directly into the error dialog itself.

Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2019-11-25 15:28:54 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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