RCP Standalone Applications

[jleotta]

Hello Eric,

Are there plans to support RCP standalone apps?

[Eric Clayberg]

Are there plans to support RCP standalone apps?

Yes...although I suppose it depends on what you had in mind.

[jleotta]

A new Project > Designer > RCP Standalone Application

But now that I have done all the required reading it really isn't all that important. The reading is necessary to understand the framework.

[jleotta]

Hello Eric,

Okay what I currently have in mind and would be quite helpful is a Form EditorPart. Currently there is a RCP EditorPart but it doesnt have the flat look or have the form widgets available.

Jim

[Eric Clayberg]

Okay what I currently have in mind and would be quite helpful is a Form EditorPart. Currently there is a RCP EditorPart but it doesnt have the flat look or have the form widgets available.

You can use the flat look and form widgets by adding the FormToolkit to the createPartControl() method. Like this:

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import org.eclipse.core.runtime.IProgressMonitor;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.ui.IEditorInput;
import org.eclipse.ui.IEditorSite;
import org.eclipse.ui.PartInitException;
import org.eclipse.ui.forms.widgets.FormToolkit;
import org.eclipse.ui.part.EditorPart;

public class FormEditorPart extends EditorPart {
    public void createPartControl(Composite parent) {
        FormToolkit toolkit = new FormToolkit(Display.getCurrent());
        Composite container = toolkit.createComposite(parent, SWT.NONE);
        toolkit.paintBordersFor(container);
    }
    public void setFocus() {
    }
    public void doSave(IProgressMonitor monitor) {
    }
    public void doSaveAs() {
    }
    public void init(IEditorSite site, IEditorInput input)
            throws PartInitException {
    }
    public boolean isDirty() {
        return false;
    }
    public boolean isSaveAsAllowed() {
        return false;
    }
}