[oXygen-user] Result view for a plugin

[Oxygen XML Editor Support]

Hi Florent,

The plugin.xml from the sample plugin WorkspaceAccess has a construct like:

<view id="SampleWorkspaceAccessID" initialSide="WEST" initialRow="0"/>

This means that it reserves place for a view in the WEST part of the 
application area.

Then in the CustomWorkspaceAccessPluginExtension sample Java class there 
is some code which adds a view component customizer:

> pluginWorkspaceAccess.addViewComponentCustomizer....

and receives a callback for that ID, allowing it to contribute with a 
panel to it.

In the future, maybe you can pose API customization questions on the 
Oxygen SDK list in order not to annoy our regular non-API developer users:

> http://www.oxygenxml.com/mailinglists.html#oxygen-sdk

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>  XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com

On 1/30/2013 3:29 PM, Florent Georges wrote:
> Oxygen XML Editor Support wrote:
>
>    Hi,
>
>> Sorry, we do not (yet) have such an API but I added an improvement
>> request for it.
>
>    Great, thanks!  That will be a valuable way to report information to
> the user when a plugin is performing a non-trivial action.
>
>> Another workaround would be to contribute your custom view from the
>> plugin, add errors to it and to show it using the API:
>
>> ro.sync.exml.workspace.api.standalone.StandalonePluginWorkspace.showView(String,
>> boolean)
>
>    Interesting.  So if I am right, I create my own view, write into it,
> and show it automatically when the action is fired.  But I couldn't
> find how to create the view in the first place.  Any pointer?
>
>    Regards,
>