Home/ Questions/Q 722599
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-14T06:00:32+00:00

I’m developing a plug-in in Eclipse and I want to show a view. I’m

  • 0

I’m developing a plug-in in Eclipse and I want to show a view. I’m using this:

PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().showView("org.eclipse.ui.articles.MyView");

however it’s being added on the right not at the set of views where I want it to be displayed.

How can I specify the location?

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    Ok found out how.

    This gave me the idea of what I should do: http://www.eclipse.org/articles/viewArticle/ViewArticle2.html in the View Position paragraph under the Step 3 section.

    When declaring the perspective, I added a placeholder to contain the view. It is shown in the following code:

    public void defineLayout(IPageLayout layout) {
String editorArea = layout.getEditorArea();   
IFolderLayout bottom =
            layout.createFolder("bottom", IPageLayout.BOTTOM, (float) 0.75f, editorArea);
bottom.addPlaceholder("org.eclipse.ui.articles.MyView");
}

    Later on, I use:

    PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getActivePage().showView("org.eclipse.ui.articles.MyView")

    to show the view and it appears where I had declared in the Perspective and not at the default right-hand side.

    Hope it could help someone else.

    Thanks and regards,

    Krt_Malta

    • 0