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Re: Cut/copy/paste at the widget level [message #330290]

Thu, 24 July 2008 10:20

Eclipse User

David Huebel wrote:
> What is the best way to declare custom cut/copy/paste behavior for a
> widget instance? If I were doing this at the view level I would
> use retargetable actions, but I need to do this for a single widget in
> a view. All the other widgets in the view should retain their usual
> cut/copy/paste behavior. Right now the widget is an instance of Composite,
> but I could subclass Composite if necessary.

Within eclipse you can use the IFocusService to register a specific
control to the system (using an id, usually).

Then you can activate a handler for that Control using the appropriate
activeWhen clause (and org.eclipse.ui.handlers) or by using a Expression
and IHandlerService#activateHandler(*).

See ISources and http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions for a
discussion of variables available, and IFocusService javadoc for a
description of its use.

PW

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Paul Webster
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Re: Cut/copy/paste at the widget level [message #330507 is a reply to message #330290]

Wed, 30 July 2008 12:09

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: davidhuebel.example.net

Paul Webster wrote:
> Within eclipse you can use the IFocusService to register a specific
> control to the system (using an id, usually).
>
> Then you can activate a handler for that Control using the appropriate
> activeWhen clause (and org.eclipse.ui.handlers) or by using a Expression
> and IHandlerService#activateHandler(*).
>
> See ISources and http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions for a
> discussion of variables available, and IFocusService javadoc for a
> description of its use.
>
> PW
>
>

Thanks! This is exactly what I needed.

-David

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