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Handler enablement spreading across plugin.xml and Java code? [message #323975]

Tue, 15 January 2008 04:57

Eclipse User

How to deal with the possibility that the enabled state of a handler
depends both on the selection (as expressed in a core expression) and
some other application state that cannot be expressed using a core
expression? I noticed that #isEnabled still gets called after the core
expression evaluates to true, so my implementation of #isEnabled takes
this other app state into account. All works as it's supposed to, but I
find it rather ugly that my logic determining enablement is now
partially in plugin.xml and partially in the handler's code.

Is there a better of way of doing this?

Thanks all,
Jasper.

Re: Handler enablement spreading across plugin.xml and Java code? [message #323982 is a reply to message #323975]

Tue, 15 January 2008 08:07

Eclipse User

Yes, in 3.2/3.3 a command enabled state = core expression & handle
isEnabled()

You can write a property tester which will call your implementation of
org.eclipse.core.expressions.PropertyTester and then use the test
element in your core expression to call it ... then it's not part of
your handler and could be shared amongst multiple handlers.

The downside in 3.3 is that property testers are not always re-evaluated
when you would desire it (the are on menu shown but not on property
change itself). In 3.4 you will be able to request a property change
re-evaluation.

PW

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