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hide menu items [message #869957]

Sat, 05 May 2012 03:37

Eclipse User

Hi,

in Eclipse 3x there was an easy an powerful way to hide menu items by adding a visibleWhen checkEnabled = true- condition in the plugin.xml.

In e4 I can also add a visibleWhen - condition but only with a core expression which makes simulating the checkEnabled- behaviour rather compilcated.

Since there is already a @CanExecute-Annotation wouldn't it be easy to provide this together with the visibleWhen in the same manner as in E3?

Regards,
Heike.

Re: hide menu items [message #870027 is a reply to message #869957]

Sat, 05 May 2012 16:27

Eclipse User

Agreed - please file a bugzilla so that we can add this in 4.3.

Tom

Am 05.05.12 09:37, schrieb Heike Winkelvoß:
> Hi,
>
> in Eclipse 3x there was an easy an powerful way to hide menu items by
> adding a visibleWhen checkEnabled = true- condition in the plugin.xml.
>
> In e4 I can also add a visibleWhen - condition but only with a core
> expression which makes simulating the checkEnabled- behaviour rather
> compilcated.
> Since there is already a @CanExecute-Annotation wouldn't it be easy to
> provide this together with the visibleWhen in the same manner as in E3?
>
> Regards,
> Heike.

Re: hide menu items [message #870029 is a reply to message #870027]

Sat, 05 May 2012 17:13

Eclipse User

done. That's great!

Heike

Re: hide menu items [message #870086 is a reply to message #870029]

Sun, 06 May 2012 06:12

Eclipse User

@Heike: Please add the bug number to this post.

Re: hide menu items [message #870108 is a reply to message #870086]

Sun, 06 May 2012 11:16

Eclipse User

@Lars there it is: 378591