Use Navigation History in Eclipse RCP

Question

I like to use the navigation history provided by Eclipse in my RCP Application. Unfortunately this feature isn\'t well documented. In fact I only found this Wiki entry: http

Answer 1

I have found the solution. In order to use the Navigation History in your Eclipse RCP application you have to add the following lines of code to your ApplicationActionBarAdvisor.

/**
 * Fills the cool bar with the main toolbars for the window.
 * 

 * The default implementation does nothing. Subclasses may override.
 * 
 * 
 * @param coolBar
 *            the cool bar manager
 */
protected void fillCoolBar( ICoolBarManager coolBar ) {
    IToolBarManager navigation = new ToolBarManager( SWT.FLAT );

    IAction backward = getAction( IWorkbenchCommandConstants.NAVIGATE_BACKWARD_HISTORY );
    IAction forward = getAction( IWorkbenchCommandConstants.NAVIGATE_FORWARD_HISTORY );

    navigation.add( backward );
    navigation.add( forward );

    coolBar.add( navigation );
}

/**
 * Instantiates the actions used in the fill methods. Use
 * {@link #register(IAction)} to register the action with the key binding
 * service and add it to the list of actions to be disposed when the window
 * is closed.
 * 
 * @param window
 *            the window containing the action bars
 */
protected void makeActions( IWorkbenchWindow window ) {
    IAction backward = ActionFactory.BACKWARD_HISTORY.create( window );
    backward.setId( IWorkbenchCommandConstants.NAVIGATE_BACKWARD_HISTORY );
    IAction forward = ActionFactory.FORWARD_HISTORY.create( window );
    forward.setId( IWorkbenchCommandConstants.NAVIGATE_FORWARD_HISTORY );

    register( backward );
    register( forward );
}