Eclipse RCP by default promotes the usage of a single application window with multiple views and editors inside. This default can be changed to multi-windowed application. The platform API offers several methods to operate with multiple application windows:
package org.eclipse.ui;
...
public interface IWorkbench ...
{
/**
* Retrieves the number of opened windows
*/
public int getWorkbenchWindowCount();
/**
* Retrieves the array of opened windows
*/
public IWorkbenchWindow[] getWorkbenchWindows();
/**
* Openes a new window with given perspective
*/
public IWorkbenchWindow openWorkbenchWindow(String perspectiveId,
IAdaptable input) throws WorkbenchException;
/**
* Performs a perspective switch in a given window
*/
public IWorkbenchPage showPerspective(String perspectiveId,
IWorkbenchWindow window, IAdaptable input)
throws WorkbenchException;
...
}
Using this API, opening of new windows seems simple. For example one could define a perspective, that is always opens in a new window.
Closing windows is generally performed by calling close method on the IWorkbenchWindow instance.
package org.eclipse.ui;
...
public interface IWorkbenchWindow ...
{
/**
* Closes the window
*/
public boolean close();
}
Unfortunaly, there is no elegant way to find out which window are you in. A workaround which uses Eclipse internal API works fine for WorkbenchWindow, which is a standard platform implementation of the IWorkbenchWindow interface.
/**
* Determines if the window is a root window
* @param window a window to be checked
* @return true, if the window is considered to be a root window
*/
public static int getWindowId(IWorkbenchWindow window)
{
// HACK: note this could change in future
if (window != null && window instanceof WorkbenchWindow))
{
return ((WorkbenchWindow)window).getNumber();
}
return -1;
}
The initial application window gets the id 1. The lookup in the implementation reveals that the internal method finds the smalles unused positive number and assigns it to the newly opened window. If you do not want to rely on this algorithm, just hash the newly created windows by they ids.
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