Disable editorArea in perspective editor?

[frankgerhardt]

If I disable the editor area in code, the visual design gets quite confused beyond usefulness.

Is there any intended way to disable the editor area in the perspective editor?

Frank.

[Eric Clayberg]

If I disable the editor area in code, the visual design gets quite confused beyond usefulness.

I don't know what that means. I disabled the editor area in the Perspective Editor and it seemed to work fine.

Is there any intended way to disable the editor area in the perspective editor?

Did you try setting the editorAreaVisible property of the perspective to false?

[frankgerhardt]

First I missed the editorAreaVisible property because I was looking for it on the editorArea, not on the perspective.

It works on my handwritten perspective. Here is what confuses me.

I create the RCP Mail demo project and make a new perspective with the two views. First with the editorArea.



Then I set the editorArea property to false.



I still see a thin vertical editorArea. My expectation is that this would be gone. Or what is this what I see there?
I also see the same in the preview.

Frank.

[frankgerhardt]

Here my handwritten perspective. The code:

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   public void createInitialLayout(IPageLayout layout) {
      String editorArea = layout.getEditorArea();
      addFastViews(layout);
      addViewShortcuts(layout);
      addPerspectiveShortcuts(layout);
      layout.addView("com.example.views.CallsView", IPageLayout.LEFT, 1f, editorArea);
   }


When I open this, I get to see it right.



The editorArea is set to visible by default but the view takes 100%.

Then I set the editorArea to not visible and I get this:



When I set it to visible again, is is gone again.



It's a bit counter intuitive because of that thin vertical thing mentioned in the previous post.

Frank.

[Eric Clayberg]

I still see a thin vertical editorArea. My expectation is that this would be gone.

Designer shows a small placeholder for the hidden editor area. Even though the editor area is hidden, its location is still relevant for layout purposes at design time.

When the editor area is not hidden, it is shown at its actual size relative to the views placed in the perspective.