# Workspace Utils

Code for selecting and switching the workspace. This is mostly adapted from org.eclipse.ui.ide, where some org.eclipse.ui.internal code was not accessible to ordinary applications.

Alexander Will had previously provided something very much like this within org.csstudio.platform.ui, but that leads to problems:
When loading the CSS platform plugin, it reads certain preferences. That in turn activates the default workspace. When invoking a "Workspace Select" dialog from the CSS platform plugin, there is consequently already a workspace active, and one cannot select the one that the user picked in the "Workspace Select" dialog. The only way out is a restart as performed in the SwitchWorkspaceAction, but that takes a long time.

This plugin is therefore as much as possible standalone, so that applications can prompt for a workspace and then select it. The org.csstudio.sns.product will show an example of using it in a way similar to the IDE.