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POEclipse RCP: How to order perspective buttons belonging to different plugins?
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copied!<p>My application has 5 plugins. Each plugin has a perspective of it's own and hence each perspective extension definition is under individual plugin's plugin.xml. </p> <p>Now, I want to control the order in which these perspectives appear in my application. How to do it?</p> <p>There is one main plugin that holds "ApplicationWorkBenchAdvisor.java". This has initialize() method in which I am iterating through the perspective registry using</p> <pre><code>PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getPerspectiveRegistry().getPerspectives(); </code></pre> <p>and then appending perspective ids in a comma separated fashion to a String variable (pbar) which is used later like this.</p> <pre><code>PlatformUI.getPreferenceStore().setDefault(IWorkbenchPreferenceConstants.PERSPECTIVE_BAR_EXTRAS, pbar); PlatformUI.getPreferenceStore().setValue(IWorkbenchPreferenceConstants.PERSPECTIVE_BAR_EXTRAS, pbar); </code></pre> <p>When iterating thourgh the perspective registry, I can compare perspective ids and sort it(when adding to 'pbar' by comparing ids) the way I want it to appear but, I don't want to do this ordering here as it appears like a dirty way.</p> <p>Is there any other place where we can fix the order in which perspectives appear? (Each perspective resides in different plugin).</p> <h2>ADDED</h2> <p>1) Could we also control the ordering in the perspective switcher?</p> <p>2) Is there a way to control entry into perspective registry to in inflict the desired order. If not could we write back into perspective registry?</p>

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