Comments on: Eclipse RCP – Removing the minimize and maximize buttons from Views

By: Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:04:46 +0000

I opened a bug for this: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=295088

By: Lars Vogel

Lars Vogel — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:01:02 +0000

@Remy @Chris: I did use the clear workspace flag in the runtime configuration. If you want to give it a try I attached the project. It is basically the “RCP with a view” template I only removed set fixedLayout and add the view via XML

By: Chris Aniszczyk

Chris Aniszczyk — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 15:42:39 +0000

Lars, generally I run into this issue if I’ve been testing a variety of RCP applications in my workbench and my configuration area or workspace hasn’t been clean.

By: Remy Chi Jian Suen

Remy Chi Jian Suen — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:08:16 +0000

Did you wipe your runtime workspace first, or at least its workbench.xml file? The perspective may have been cached and the (plugin.xml) contribution was ignored. If yes, it certainly sounds like a bug, if it is the expected behaviour, then it needs to be documented somewhere.

By: Bogdan

Bogdan — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:38:46 +0000

Hi Lars,

another aspect: layout.setFixed(true) might be doing the job for views, but it is not doing it for editors. The minimize and maximize buttons are visible in the editor area (IEditorSite), although they are not doing anything (not for RCP and also not for RAP) – not nice at all.

I searched into FormEditor.getEditorSite.getActionBars but could not find them there.
I also tried ((WorkbenchWindow) PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow()).getActionBars() – not there either.
Even my ActionBarAdvisor extension did not help.
I am wondering if I’ve missed something there.

Anyway, if you find a way to do it, please keep me also informed!