Conditionally-fixed Views and Editors in Eclipse RCP Perspective

Question

We have an Eclipse perspective with an editor area in the middle. We're looking for a bit more customization with regards for how we can enable/disable the minimize/maximize controls for an IFolderLayout

We're on the Eclipse 3.7 platform, but the most customization we can find is using the setFixed() method on the entire IPageLayout.

The ability to hide the min/max controls using setFixed() is desirable, but we'd like to be able to do it for a particular set of views. We'd like for the vast majority of our views to be fixed, but a select few should allow for maximizing.

Is there any way to implement conditional controls for a select few views? The Javadocs for the IPageLayout, IFolderLayout, and IViewLayout don't seem too promising - nor do any perspective/RCP layout guides.

Answer 1

IViewLayout has setCloseable and setMoveable methods which should do what you want.