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Specifying *BOTH* Lable and Icon in Toolbar MenuContribution [message #327637]

Sun, 27 April 2008 18:10

Eclipse User

In Eclipse 3.3, I have noticed that any menuContribution to a toolbar that
contains a label and icon in the command only the icon gets displayed.

Is there anyway to display both a label and icon in a toolbar item menu
contribution?

Re: Specifying *BOTH* Lable and Icon in Toolbar MenuContribution [message #327639 is a reply to message #327637]

Sun, 27 April 2008 18:15

Eclipse User

You need to specify the MODE_FORCE_TEXT mode on the IContributionItem,
or the ToolbarContributionManager will ignore the text by default. I
use this helper method so I can work with the Action API instead of
Contributions.

/**
* Snippet to add an IAction instance to a toolbar or menu manager with
* MODE_FORCE_TEXT.
*
* @param manager the toolbar or menu manager
* @param action the action to add
*/
public static void addItemWithText(IContributionManager manager,
IAction action, String groupId) {
ActionContributionItem contribution =
new ActionContributionItem(action);
contribution.setMode(ActionContributionItem.MODE_FORCE_TEXT) ;

if (groupId == null || "".equals(groupId)) {
manager.add(contribution);
}
else {
manager.appendToGroup(groupId, contribution);
}
}

--
Peter Centgraf

Re: Specifying *BOTH* Lable and Icon in Toolbar MenuContribution [message #327641 is a reply to message #327639]

Sun, 27 April 2008 20:18

Eclipse User

Peter,

It is not clear how I would do this from the plugin.xml. I am trying to
define the maximum of my menu/toolbar contributions declaratively using the
new 3.3 menuContribution extensions.

Anyone have any luck with this?

"Peter Centgraf" <peter@centgraf.net> wrote in message
news:fv2ttv$2bi$1@build.eclipse.org...
> You need to specify the MODE_FORCE_TEXT mode on the IContributionItem, or
> the ToolbarContributionManager will ignore the text by default. I use
> this helper method so I can work with the Action API instead of
> Contributions.
>
> /**
> * Snippet to add an IAction instance to a toolbar or menu manager with
> * MODE_FORCE_TEXT.
> *
> * @param manager the toolbar or menu manager
> * @param action the action to add
> */
> public static void addItemWithText(IContributionManager manager,
> IAction action, String groupId) {
> ActionContributionItem contribution =
> new ActionContributionItem(action);
> contribution.setMode(ActionContributionItem.MODE_FORCE_TEXT) ;
>
> if (groupId == null || "".equals(groupId)) {
> manager.add(contribution);
> }
> else {
> manager.appendToGroup(groupId, contribution);
> }
> }
>
> --
> Peter Centgraf

Re: Specifying *BOTH* Lable and Icon in Toolbar MenuContribution [message #327764 is a reply to message #327641]

Wed, 30 April 2008 19:08

Eclipse User

Stuart Pond wrote:
> Peter,
>
> It is not clear how I would do this from the plugin.xml. I am trying to
> define the maximum of my menu/toolbar contributions declaratively using the
> new 3.3 menuContribution extensions.
>
> Anyone have any luck with this?

That functionality is not available in actions or commands from the
plugin.xml until 3.4 (a new mode attribute was added to the extension
points like actionSets and menus).

PW

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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/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

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