Eclipse RCP application Active Title Bar

Question

I am working in an RCP application similar to Eclipse where the user can navigate in Project Explorer tree and opens any file in the Editor

i am Setting the RCP application title in a class which extends "WorkbenchWindowAdvisor" as the following:

  IWorkbenchWindowConfigurer configurer = getWindowConfigurer();
  configurer.setTitle("My RCP Application title");

But what i need to show up in title bar the perspective name and the opened file path like in normal eclipse:

any suggestions

Thanks

Answer 1

This is requires listening to a lot of events in your WorkbenchWindowAdvisor.

In the preWindowOpen method you need to add listeners for:

• Page activation and closing using configurer.getWindow().addPageListener(listener) The pageActivated and pageClosed listener methods need to update the title.
• Perspective changes using configurer.getWindow().addPerspectiveListener(listener). The perspectiveActivated, perspectiveSavedAs, perspectiveDeactivated methods need to update the title.
• Part activations using configurer.getWindow().getPartService().addPartListener(listener). This need to use an IPartListener2. The partActivated, partBroughtToTop, partClosed, partHidden, partVisible methods need to update the title.

You get the open file path from the active editor:

IWorkbenchPage currentPage = configurer.getWindow().getActivePage();
IEditorPart activeEditor = currentPage.getActiveEditor();
if (activeEditor != null) {
   path = activeEditor.getTitleToolTip();
}

and the perspective name:

IPerspectiveDescriptor persp = currentPage.getPerspective();
if (persp != null) {
    label = persp.getLabel();
}

The full, even more complex, code for this is in org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEWorkbenchWindowAdvisor