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In a BeanShell script, you can obtain the current view instance from the view variable.

The largest component it contains is an EditPane that in turn contains a org.gjt.sp.jedit.textarea.JEditTextArea that displays a Buffer . A view can have more than one edit pane in a split window configuration. A view also contains a menu bar, an optional toolbar and other window decorations, as well as docked windows.

The View class performs two important operations dealing with plugins: creating plugin menu items, and managing dockable windows.

• When a view is being created, its initialization routine iterates through the collection of loaded plugins and constructs the Plugins menu using the properties as specified in the EditPlugin class.
• The view also creates and initializes a org.gjt.sp.jedit.gui.DockableWindowManager object. This object is responsible for creating, closing and managing dockable windows.

To ensure that View.hideWaitCursor() is always called after a View.showWaitCursor() , use a try/finally block, like this:

try
 {
 view.showWaitCursor();
 // ...
 }
 finally
 {
 view.hideWaitCursor();
 }