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How to hook the "About" menu on Mac [message #918792] Fri, 21 September 2012 06:51 Go to next message
Thomas Mäder is currently offline Thomas Mäder
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On the mac, the "About", "Quit", and "Preferences..." menu items are in the application menu. Does anyone know how I can hook up my own handlers to these menu items in a E4 application with no compatibility layer?

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Re: How to hook the "About" menu on Mac [message #918807 is a reply to message #918792] Fri, 21 September 2012 07:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Christoph Keimel is currently offline Christoph Keimel
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Hi Thomas

In your main project, there is a *.e4xmi file (usually Application.e4xmi if you used the e4 Application Project wizard).
You can edit this file using the e4 Workbench Model Editor.
Find the Handler (Application > Handlers) which points to the Command (i.e. aboutCommand) you are looking for.
Change the Class URI an let it point to your own implementation (or use the link to open the default implementation and change it).

Greetings
Christoph

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Re: How to hook the "About" menu on Mac [message #918867 is a reply to message #918807] Fri, 21 September 2012 08:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Thomas Mäder is currently offline Thomas Mäder
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So ist there a bunch of "standard" handlers that get hooked up to the system menu? If so it's not working for the "quit" command. I know how register REGULAR menu items, I just don't know how to hook up the system menu on the Mac.

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Re: How to hook the "About" menu on Mac [message #918874 is a reply to message #918867] Fri, 21 September 2012 08:33 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Christoph Keimel is currently offline Christoph Keimel
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Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I don't know anything about how to change the system menu.

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Re: How to hook the "About" menu on Mac [message #921469 is a reply to message #918874] Mon, 24 September 2012 02:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Thomas Schindl is currently offline Thomas Schindl
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Look how the cocoa rendere addon is doing it.

Tom

Am 21.09.12 14:33, schrieb Christoph Keimel:
> Sorry, I misunderstood your question. I don't know anything about how to
> change the system menu.

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Re: How to hook the "About" menu on Mac [message #921816 is a reply to message #921469] Mon, 24 September 2012 09:02 Go to previous message
Brian de Alwis is currently offline Brian de Alwis
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The Cocoa addon (org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.cocoa) redirects About, Preferences, and Quit to the corresponding Eclipse 3.x command ids (respectively org.eclipse.ui.help.aboutAction, org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences, and org.eclipse.ui.file.exit). Declare a command for those ids in your .e4xmi and provide a handler.

Brian.

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