Package org.eclipse.ui.dialogs

Class PreferencesUtil

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.ui.dialogs.PreferencesUtil

public final class PreferencesUtil
extends Object

The PreferencesUtil class is the class that opens a properties or preference dialog on a set of ids.

Since:

3.1

Field Summary

Fields

Modifier and Type	Field	Description
static final int	OPTION_FILTER_LOCKED	Constant for configuring a preferences or properties dialog in which the user cannot "unfilter" to show a larger set of pages than was passed to createPreferenceDialogOn(Shell, String, String[], Object, int) or createPropertyDialogOn(Shell, IAdaptable, String, String[], Object, int) .
static final int	OPTION_NONE	Constant denoting no option.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
PreferencesUtil()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
static PreferenceDialog	createPreferenceDialogOn(Shell shell, String preferencePageId, String[] displayedIds, Object data)	Creates a workbench preference dialog and selects particular preference page.
static PreferenceDialog	createPreferenceDialogOn(Shell shell, String preferencePageId, String[] displayedIds, Object data, int options)	Creates a workbench preference dialog and selects particular preference page.
static PreferenceDialog	createPropertyDialogOn(Shell shell, Object element, String propertyPageId, String[] displayedIds, Object data, int options)	Creates a workbench preference dialog to a particular preference page.
static PreferenceDialog	createPropertyDialogOn(Shell shell, IAdaptable element, String propertyPageId, String[] displayedIds, Object data)	Creates a workbench preference dialog to a particular preference page.
static PreferenceDialog	createPropertyDialogOn(Shell shell, IAdaptable element, String propertyPageId, String[] displayedIds, Object data, int options)	Creates a workbench preference dialog to a particular preference page.
static boolean	hasPropertiesContributors(Object element)	Indicates whether the specified element has at least one property page contributor.
static IPreferenceNode[]	propertiesContributorsFor(Object element)	Return all of the properties page contributors for an element.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Field Details

OPTION_NONE

public static final int OPTION_NONE

Constant denoting no option.

Since:

3.5

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

OPTION_FILTER_LOCKED

public static final int OPTION_FILTER_LOCKED

Constant for configuring a preferences or properties dialog in which the user cannot "unfilter" to show a larger set of pages than was passed to createPreferenceDialogOn(Shell, String, String[], Object, int) or createPropertyDialogOn(Shell, IAdaptable, String, String[], Object, int) .

Since:

3.5

See Also:

• Constant Field Values

Constructor Details

PreferencesUtil

public PreferencesUtil()

Method Details

createPreferenceDialogOn

public static PreferenceDialog createPreferenceDialogOn(Shell shell,
 String preferencePageId,
 String[] displayedIds,
 Object data)

Creates a workbench preference dialog and selects particular preference page. If there is already a preference dialog open this dialog is used and its selection is set to the page with id preferencePageId. Show the other pages as filtered results using whatever filtering criteria the search uses. It is the responsibility of the caller to then call open(). The call to open() will not return until the dialog closes, so this is the last chance to manipulate the dialog.

Parameters:

shell - The Shell to parent the dialog off of if it is not already created. May be null in which case the active workbench window will be used if available.

preferencePageId - The identifier of the preference page to open; may be null. If it is null, then the preference page is not selected or modified in any way.

displayedIds - The ids of the other pages to be displayed using the same filtering criterea as search. If this is null, then the all preference pages are shown.

data - Data that will be passed to all of the preference pages to be applied as specified within the page as they are created. If the data is null nothing will be called.

Returns:

a preference dialog.

Since:

3.1

See Also:

• PreferenceDialog(Shell, PreferenceManager)

createPropertyDialogOn

public static PreferenceDialog createPropertyDialogOn(Shell shell,
 IAdaptable element,
 String propertyPageId,
 String[] displayedIds,
 Object data)

Creates a workbench preference dialog to a particular preference page. Show the other pages as filtered results using whatever filtering criteria the search uses. It is the responsibility of the caller to then call open(). The call to open() will not return until the dialog closes, so this is the last chance to manipulate the dialog.

Parameters:

shell - The shell to use to parent the dialog if required.

propertyPageId - The identifier of the preference page to open; may be null. If it is null, then the dialog is opened with no selected page.

element - IAdaptable An adaptable element to open the dialog on.

displayedIds - The ids of the other pages to be displayed using the same filtering criterea as search. If this is null, then the all preference pages are shown.

data - Data that will be passed to all of the preference pages to be applied as specified within the page as they are created. If the data is null nothing will be called.

Returns:

A preference dialog showing properties for the selection or null if it could not be created.

Since:

3.1

createPreferenceDialogOn

public static PreferenceDialog createPreferenceDialogOn(Shell shell,
 String preferencePageId,
 String[] displayedIds,
 Object data,
 int options)

Creates a workbench preference dialog and selects particular preference page. If there is already a preference dialog open this dialog is used and its selection is set to the page with id preferencePageId. Show the other pages as filtered results using whatever filtering criteria the search uses. It is the responsibility of the caller to then call open(). The call to open() will not return until the dialog closes, so this is the last chance to manipulate the dialog.

Parameters:

shell - The Shell to parent the dialog off of if it is not already created. May be null in which case the active workbench window will be used if available.

preferencePageId - The identifier of the preference page to open; may be null. If it is null, then the preference page is not selected or modified in any way.

displayedIds - The ids of the other pages to be displayed using the same filtering criterea as search. If this is null, then the all preference pages are shown.

data - Data that will be passed to all of the preference pages to be applied as specified within the page as they are created. If the data is null nothing will be called.

options - a bitwise OR of option constants

Returns:

a preference dialog.

Since:

3.5

See Also:

• PreferenceDialog(Shell, PreferenceManager)

createPropertyDialogOn

public static PreferenceDialog createPropertyDialogOn(Shell shell,
 IAdaptable element,
 String propertyPageId,
 String[] displayedIds,
 Object data,
 int options)

Creates a workbench preference dialog to a particular preference page. Show the other pages as filtered results using whatever filtering criteria the search uses. It is the responsibility of the caller to then call open(). The call to open() will not return until the dialog closes, so this is the last chance to manipulate the dialog.

Parameters:

shell - The shell to use to parent the dialog if required.

propertyPageId - The identifier of the preference page to open; may be null. If it is null, then the dialog is opened with no selected page.

element - IAdaptable An adaptable element to open the dialog on.

displayedIds - The ids of the other pages to be displayed using the same filtering criteria as search. If this is null, then the all preference pages are shown.

data - Data that will be passed to all of the preference pages to be applied as specified within the page as they are created. If the data is null nothing will be called.

options - a bitwise OR of option constants

Returns:

A preference dialog showing properties for the selection or null if it could not be created.

Since:

3.5

createPropertyDialogOn

public static PreferenceDialog createPropertyDialogOn(Shell shell,
 Object element,
 String propertyPageId,
 String[] displayedIds,
 Object data,
 int options)

Creates a workbench preference dialog to a particular preference page. Show the other pages as filtered results using whatever filtering criteria the search uses. It is the responsibility of the caller to then call open(). The call to open() will not return until the dialog closes, so this is the last chance to manipulate the dialog.

Parameters:

shell - The shell to use to parent the dialog if required.

propertyPageId - The identifier of the preference page to open; may be null. If it is null, then the dialog is opened with no selected page.

element - An element to open the dialog on.

displayedIds - The IDs of the other pages to be displayed using the same filtering criteria as search. If this is null, then the all preference pages are shown.

data - Data that will be passed to all of the preference pages to be applied as specified within the page as they are created. If the data is null nothing will be called.

options - a bitwise OR of option constants

Returns:

A preference dialog showing properties for the selection or null if it could not be created.

Since:

3.6

hasPropertiesContributors

public static boolean hasPropertiesContributors(Object element)

Indicates whether the specified element has at least one property page contributor.

Parameters:

element - an adapter element of a property page

Returns:

true for having at least one contributor; false otherwise

Since:

3.4

propertiesContributorsFor

public static IPreferenceNode[] propertiesContributorsFor(Object element)

Return all of the properties page contributors for an element.

Parameters:

element - the element to process

Returns:

IPreferenceNode[]

Since:

3.4