Yes that is what "perspectives" are designed to do.
If you follow the "Custom App" tutorial in the developers guide you will
see how to make a perspective. The general concept with a perspective is
to arrange the views (ie show/open/hide) in order to facilitate a
specific activity.
As a programmer you can switch between perspectives automatically as
needed. You may of noticed Eclipse switching into the Debug Perspective
when you go to into "Debug Mode".
Following your example you would want to:
- make a "paddocks perspective" and switch to that arrangement when they
are working with the paddocks layer
- make a "dams perspective" and switch to that arrangement when they are
working with the paddocks layer
I also note you could simply listen to the workbench selection (see the
"Workbench Selection" tutorial in the developers guide) you can notice
when the correct layer is selected; and simply show/hide the views yourself.
The difference between an "View" and "Editor" is central here; I am
working with the assumption that only the "Maps" are in an editor; and
the rest of what you are talking about are views?
Jody
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Is there a way to programatically hide or close certain editors and
show/open in a IFolderLayout folder of editors based on the layer
currently selected in the layers view?
For example I am developing a mapping tool for farmers. The screen is
divided into two views on the left showing the layers view (top left)
and all the editors added into the IFolderLayout (bottom left) and the
Map itself shows on the right.
On a map with a layer for paddocks, buildings, dams, pipelines etc...
I want to be able to only show the relevant editors for each layer
when that layer is selected. If they select the paddocks layer it
shows the paddock and paddock usage history editors. Then if they
select dams it shows the dam editor. Rather than having all the
editors showing at the same time, creating a mess of tabs which can't
be read because they're so squashed up.
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