Using the Eclipse Common Navigator Framework in RCP

May 29th, 2009 by Martin Becker | Posted in Thoughts and Facts, Uncategorized |

Using the Eclipse Common Navigator Framework (CNF) in an RCP-Application is kind of tricky as there is a bug preventing the straight forward usage. I collected some links pointing to information about this bug and appropriate solutions:

the bug (closed, to be “fixed” in 3.5?):

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=145233

solution with example

http://www.cpuidle.de/blog/?p=48

http://www.cpuidle.de/blog/?attachment_id=50

official eclipse help, taking this bug into account (navigate to: Using the Common Navigator in an RCP Application):

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/cnf.htm

another resource:
http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/francis/2008/05/27/magic-required-to-use-the-common-navigator-in-an-rcp-application/

This should help, I hope.