Bug 88730

Comment 1 Eddie Galvez 2005-07-27 14:20:33 EDT

Our product needs this -- could this be done soon? Is there any workaround possible?

Comment 2 Eddie Galvez 2005-07-27 15:26:17 EDT

workaround (ugly ugly! so ugly we cant use it for our release)

 drop a cleverly constructed workbench.xml in the
.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.ui.workbench for the workspace that contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <workbench version="2.0">
 
 <window x="0" y="0" width="1024" height="768">
 
 <fastViewData fastViewLocation="1024">
 <orientation view="com.streambase.sb.ide.views.PropertiesView" position="256"/>
 </fastViewData>
 
 <fastViews>
 <view id="com.streambase.sb.ide.views.PropertiesView" ratio="0.6"/>
 </fastViews>
 
 </window>
 
 </workbench>

  Where position=256 means horizontal, position=512 means vertical.

Comment 3 Nick Edgar 2005-07-28 11:20:56 EDT

Eddie, there are no immediate plans to address this one.
If you'd like to investigate a patch, that would greatly increase the likelihood
of it going into 3.2.  The place to start would be
PerspectiveExtensionReader.processView (in the org.eclipse.ui.workbench plug-in).

The entrypoint, PerspectiveExtensionReader.extendLayout, is called during
perspective creation from Perspective.loadPredefinedPersp.

Comment 4 Nick Edgar 2006-03-15 11:46:53 EST

Reassigning bugs in component areas that are changing ownership.

Comment 5 Paul Webster 2006-09-28 11:00:53 EDT

There are currently no plans to work on this feature.

PW

Comment 6 Denis Roy 2007-06-22 09:32:50 EDT

Changes requested on bug 193523

Comment 7 ankit chauhan 2014-06-05 02:31:52 EDT

Hi,

In your setFocus() method of your fast view just do this:

IWorkbenchPage page = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage();
        if( page != null )
        {
            IViewReference[] viewReferences = page.getViewReferences();
            for( IViewReference ivr : viewReferences )
            {
                if( ivr.getId().equalsIgnoreCase(YOUR_VIEW_ID ) )
                {
                    ( (WorkbenchWindow)             PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow() ).getFastViewBar().setOrientation(
                            ivr, SWT.HORIZONTAL );
                }
            }
        }

Comment 8 Paul Webster 2014-06-13 10:23:54 EDT

(In reply to ankit chauhan from comment #7)
> Hi,
> 
> In your setFocus() method of your fast view just do this:

Just a note that setFocus() is only called when the tab is clicked, not necessarily when the view is activated, and more generally this won't work in 4.x (Juno onwards) at all as the fastview implementation changed.

PW

Comment 9 ankit chauhan 2014-06-18 01:45:27 EDT

Hi Paul. There's another solution for this but I don't know whether this will work in eclipse 4.x or not. Here's the solution: After create a view(fast) just set the 
state to minimize(so no need to declare in setFocus()):-

/**
 * @param state - one of the IWorkbenchPage STATE_* values: STATE_MAXIMIZED,        *STATE_MINIMIZED, STATE_RESTORED
 * @unpublished
 */
 public void setViewState( int state )
    {
        IWorkbenchPage page =  PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage();
        int currentState = page.getPartState( page.getReference( this ) );
        if( currentState != state )
        {
            page.activate( this );
            page.setPartState( page.getReference( this ), state );
        }
    }


so when you pass '0' in setViewState it will make the default orientation to horizontal.

Hope this will work :)

Comment 10 ankit chauhan 2014-06-18 01:54:34 EDT

So the code from my last two comment in combination will temporarily allow you to put default orientation to horizontal() without using setFocus() method. Hope there will be a permanent solution. :)

Comment 11 Lars Vogel 2019-11-27 07:07:08 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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