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How to create a pop-up menu [message #513821]

Thu, 11 February 2010 07:16

Eclipse User

Hi guys,

I have an IContributionItem object and I want to create a pop-up menu in my View. How can I add this IContributionItem in the pop-up menu?

This works fine:

MenuManager menuManager = new MenuManager();
manager.add(myContributionItemObject);
Menu menu = menuManager.createContextMenu(viewer.getControl());
viewer.getControl().setMenu(menu);
getSite().registerContextMenu(menuManager, viewer);

But I'd like to have myContributionItemObject in its own sub-menu called "Zoom". How can I do that?

Re: How to create a pop-up menu [message #513838 is a reply to message #513821]

Thu, 11 February 2010 03:24

Eclipse User

behnil@centrum.cz wrote:
>
> But I'd like to have myContributionItemObject in its own sub-menu called
> "Zoom". How can I do that?

Create a second MenuManager. Add that to the first MenuManager, and add
your contribution item to the second.

PW

--
Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Re: How to create a pop-up menu [message #513868 is a reply to message #513838]

Thu, 11 February 2010 09:38

Eclipse User

Hi Paul,

thank for your advice. Did you mean something like this:

MenuManager menuManager = new MenuManager();
MenuManager submenuManager = new MenuManager("Zoom");
menuManager.add(new GroupMarker(IWorkbenchActionConstants.MB_ADDITIONS));
menuManager.add(new Separator());
menuManager.add(submenuManager);
submenuManager.add(myContributionItemObject);
Menu menu = menuManager.createContextMenu(viewer.getControl());
viewer.getControl().setMenu(menu);
getSite().registerContextMenu(menuManager, viewer);

Great, but if I hover by mouse on the "Zoom" in the menu, it turns gray and nothing happens..I mean, no sub-menu shows up. Confused

Re: How to create a pop-up menu [message #513907 is a reply to message #513868]

Thu, 11 February 2010 11:09

Eclipse User

behnil@centrum.cz wrote:
> MenuManager menuManager = new MenuManager();
> MenuManager submenuManager = new MenuManager("Zoom");
> menuManager.add(new GroupMarker(IWorkbenchActionConstants.MB_ADDITIONS));
> menuManager.add(new Separator());
> menuManager.add(submenuManager);
> submenuManager.add(myContributionItemObject);
> Menu menu = menuManager.createContextMenu(viewer.getControl());
> viewer.getControl().setMenu(menu);
> getSite().registerContextMenu(menuManager, viewer);

That's because myContributionItemObject appears to be not-visible or
doesn't create any MenuItems. Your submenu is then disabled because it
has nothing in it. What is your contribution item doing?

PW

--
Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Re: How to create a pop-up menu [message #513917 is a reply to message #513907]

Thu, 11 February 2010 11:26

Eclipse User

Paul Webster wrote on Thu, 11 February 2010 11:09

That's because myContributionItemObject appears to be not-visible or
doesn't create any MenuItems. Your submenu is then disabled because it
has nothing in it. What is your contribution item doing?

PW

myContributionItemObject is a list of 6 zoom values. But if I right-click and open pop-up menu, there is a "Zoom" item and it's enabled. It goes gray only after I hover on that with mouse.

It's weird. If I use this code:

MenuManager menuManager = new MenuManager();
menuManager.add(new GroupMarker(IWorkbenchActionConstants.MB_ADDITIONS));
manager.add(myContributionItemObject);
Menu menu = menuManager.createContextMenu(viewer.getControl());
viewer.getControl().setMenu(menu);
getSite().registerContextMenu(menuManager, viewer);

It works perfectly except that those 6 zoom values are in root menu. And I want to put them in "Zoom" submenu Smile

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