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Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #926228]

Fri, 28 September 2012 08:40

Kathryn Kaiser
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2012

Junior Member

Here is what we want to do:

We have our own Eclipse RCP application in which we customize, pick and choose the Eclipse features for our use.

Within the Preferences -> General -> Keys we only want certain commands and their key binding on this preference page, therefore we want to hide the ones we don't want.

We tried to use activities to exclude the commands for these key bindings, but this did not work. We cannot extend the class org.eclipse.ui.internal.keys.KeysPreferencePage, and do not have the time nor desire to create our own Keys preference page.

Anyone have any ideas on how we can do this?

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Re: Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #929646 is a reply to message #926228]

Mon, 01 October 2012 12:27

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

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You can create your own scheme and then put the keys you want in it. If you make that the default scheme, your RCP app will show those key bindings on the Keys preference page.

But you need to copy over *all* of the keys that you want to expose.

It still doesn't prevent them from seeing the default scheme, I think.

PW

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Re: Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #930859 is a reply to message #929646]

Tue, 02 October 2012 14:05

Kathryn Kaiser
Messages: 2
Registered: September 2012

Junior Member

We did do that, and all the keys we do not want are also included. I will check this

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Re: Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #931304 is a reply to message #930859]

Wed, 03 October 2012 00:47

Catalin Gerea
Messages: 86
Registered: July 2009
Location: Bucharest, Romania

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Hello

A code reading of the KeysPreferencePage (from eclipse 3.8.1) reveals that the table with bindings are populated from the BindingManager; the BindingManager has a "removeBinding(Binding)" method.
So in theory you could get a reference to the BindingManager, iterate over all the bindings and remove the un-wanted ones. But I did not tried this approach and I am not sure if it works.

Time is what you make of it.

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Re: Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #941390 is a reply to message #931304]

Fri, 12 October 2012 09:28

Craig Foote
Messages: 184
Registered: July 2009

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If we create our own scheme and add to it the key bindings we want to use, all the available commands are listed (though not bound). Is there any way to exclude the commands we aren't using? I would have thought that an activities extension would hide the command contribution but it doesn't. The result is a customer who has to navigate around irrelevant and confusing commands when setting their key binding preferences.

(Using eclipse 3.7.2)

Craig

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Re: Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #945667 is a reply to message #941390]

Mon, 15 October 2012 10:11

Anders Baumann
Messages: 7
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

Hi Craig.
We are facing exactly the same problem as you. Did you manage to somehow solve this problem?

Thanks in advance,
Anders

[Updated on: Mon, 15 October 2012 10:12]

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Re: Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #945755 is a reply to message #945667]

Mon, 15 October 2012 12:00

Craig Foote
Messages: 184
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

No solution yet, please let us know if you find one.

Craig

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Re: Hide Key Bindings from Preference Page [message #946740 is a reply to message #945755]

Tue, 16 October 2012 09:04

Anders Baumann
Messages: 7
Registered: March 2011

Junior Member

I have just looked at the code for the NewKeysPreferencePage. In the method #createContents there is the following code:

	fPatternFilter = new CategoryPatternFilter(true, commandService
				.getCategory(null));
		if (settings.get(TAG_FILTER_UNCAT) != null) {
			fPatternFilter.filterCategories(settings
					.getBoolean(TAG_FILTER_UNCAT));
		}

This means that commands without a category are automatically filtered. But it is not possible to specify other categories to filtered. That does'nt seem very flexible. Maybe we need to create a bug issue for this?

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