Hi:
On Aug 22, 2013, at 12:52 AM, "LYNCH, Damien" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way of saving the position of an OPI opened in a detached view so the view window position is retained after a restart? At the moment the view seems to be centred over the main window.
In short: Sorry, no, and I don't think we should invest time fixing that.
Why?
CSS is currently based on Eclipse 3.x. With Eclipse 4.x, window position issues go away. There's no longer any distinction between 'editor' and 'view'.
This means that a "Probe" panel (a 'view') can be moved to the center of the workbench, which was previously reserved for 'editors'.
A "BOY" *.opi, "Data Browser" *.plt, text editor and other 'editors' can be moved out of the workbench, "detached", which isn't possible with Eclipse 3.x 'editors'. And yes, their position is retained after a restart.
So with CSS based on Eclipse 4.x, your problem is solved. The extra code that has been added to SDS, BOY, Data Browser, .. to open things as "Views" instead of "Editors", in a "Shell" to be standalone, … is all obsolete. In fact that type of code, which hacked into internals of the 3.x API, is part of the problem why moving CSS to Eclipse 4.x has been so slow.
At this time, we have a version of CSS in the git repository that mostly works with Eclipse 4.x, but the development effort has been concentrated on other things, remaining on a branch that still targets Eclipse 3.x, so by now the 4.x branch has fallen behind. It would probably be possible to preserve detached window positions in the 3.x code, but I think we should move towards 4.x instead of sinking time into this on 3.x, and then needing even more time to un-do that for 4.x.
-Kay
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