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Dynamic visibility toolbar button [message #336317]

Mon, 08 June 2009 04:58

Alexia Allanic
Messages: 2
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi,

I use org.eclipse.ui.menus to have a dynamic menu in toolbar. I want to
have a button in the toolbar activated and visibled only when the current
editor is one of editors "save" in my extension point.
First, I try to use an Adapter with the property visibleWhen.
Next, I try to overwrite the method isVisible of ContributionItem class
but the active editor is not loading before the method call.
This two solutions don't work, someone has an other idea?

Thanks

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Re: Dynamic visibility toolbar button [message #336325 is a reply to message #336317]

Mon, 08 June 2009 12:26

Paul Webster
Messages: 6813
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

So you have an extension point with a couple of editor IDs, and you want
your toolitem to be visible when the active editor is one of these IDs?

If that is the case, your visibleWhen would look like:

<visibleWhen>
<with variable="activeEditorId">
<test property="com.example.inMyExtension"/>
</with>
</visibleWhen>
[/xml]

then write a property tester that can compare the string ID with your
list of IDs.

If this is not your usecase, please provide more details.

PW

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Paul Webster
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Re: Dynamic visibility toolbar button [message #336341 is a reply to message #336325]

Tue, 09 June 2009 04:41

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: alexia.allanic.atosorigin.com

Thanks!! Use a property tester works very well.
It's the solution I tried to do.
Thanks a lot

Alexia

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