Perspectives
Perspectives
Identifier:
org.blueberry.ui.perspective
Description:
This extension point is used to add perspective factories to the workbench. A perspective factory is used to define the initial layout and visible action sets for a perspective. The user can select a perspective by invoking the "Open Perspective" submenu of the "Window" menu.
Configuration Markup:
<!ELEMENT extension (perspective*)>
<!ATTLIST extension
point CDATA #REQUIRED
id CDATA #IMPLIED
name CDATA #IMPLIED>
- point - a fully qualified identifier of the target extension point
- id - an optional identifier of the extension instance
- name - an optional name of the extension instance
<!ELEMENT perspective (description? , keywordReference*)>
<!ATTLIST perspective
id CDATA #REQUIRED
name CDATA #REQUIRED
class CDATA #REQUIRED
icon CDATA #IMPLIED
fixed (true | false) >
- id - a unique name that will be used to identify this perspective.
- name - a translatable name that will be used in the workbench window menu bar to represent this perspective.
- class - a fully qualified name of the class that implements
berry::IPerspectiveFactory interface.
- icon - a relative name of the icon that will be associated
with this perspective.
- fixed - indicates whether the layout of the perspective is fixed. If true, then views created by the perspective factory are not closeable, and cannot be moved. The default is false.
<!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>
an optional subelement whose body should contain text providing a short description of the perspective.
Examples:
The following is an example of a perspective extension:
<extension
point="org.blueberry.ui.perspectives">
<perspective
id="org.blueberry.ui.resourcePerspective"
name="Resource"
class="berry::ResourcePerspective"
icon="resources/MyIcon.gif">
</perspective>
</extension>
Supplied Implementation:
The workbench provides a "Resource Perspective".
Additional perspectives may be added by plug-ins.
They are selected using the "Open Perspective" submenu of the "Window" menu.
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