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activities and filter out GUI [message #334080]

Mon, 19 January 2009 11:35

Eclipse User

Hi,
I use activities extension point to filter out menus and toolbars.
I define it in the plugin.xml as below. But I still get
"Edit","Navigate","Project" menus. My application don't need to edit or
build. It is not editable.
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
<category
name="Filter GUI Category"
id="org.myorg.category.excludeFromGUI">
</category>
<categoryActivityBinding
activityId="org.myorg.activity.excludeFromGUI"
categoryId="org.myorg.category.excludeFromGUI">
</categoryActivityBinding>
<activity
name = "Exclude GUI"
description="Exclude GUI"
id="org.myorg.activity.excludeFromGUI">
</activity>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.myorg.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern=".*/org\.eclipse\.ui\.examples\.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.myorg.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern=".*/org.eclipse.search.menu.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.myorg.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern=".*/org.eclipse.edit.menu.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
</extension>

1) How may I detect the ids of different menu items in order to define
them in activity binding, for example:
Project->Build Working Set, Build Automatically
Edit->Undo,Redo,Cut,Copy,Paste
2) Is it possible to remove all the menus and tool bars and add my owns ?
When I tried to define as following - I still get some menus
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.myorg.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern=".*/.*">
</activityPatternBinding>

Thanks a lot.
Stella

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #493434 is a reply to message #334080]

Mon, 26 October 2009 05:28

Eclipse User

Stella,
Did you find a way to hide Project->Build Working Set, Build Automatically, Edit->Undo,Redo,Cut,Copy,Paste ??

I am looking to hide the Close Project action and am unable to do it.

Let me know if you found a way out.

thanks
Dilip

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #493554 is a reply to message #334080]

Mon, 26 October 2009 15:39

Eclipse User

I'd like to remove the Run menu completely. I've got all of the menu items removed with activities but I'm unable to remove the empty Run menu. My activity is:

<activity description="Hide Run menu" id="activity.runMenu" name="RunMenu activity"
</activity>

<activityPatternBinding activityId="activity.runMenu" pattern=".*/org.eclipse.ui.run">
<activityPatternBinding>

Could the problem be groupMarkers left in the menu? If so, they have no id so do I use a matcher for their name? Or is there something else to this?

Any help greatly appreciated.

Craig

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #493582 is a reply to message #493554]

Tue, 27 October 2009 00:32

Eclipse User

Hi Craig,
Were you successful with hiding any actions from the Project menu ? I am able to hide actions from the Search menu with :

<activityPatternBinding
activityId="com.xyz.ui.disable"

pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.OpenFileSearchPage ">
</activityPatternBinding>

<activityPatternBinding
activityId="com.xyz.ui.disable"

pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.OpenSearchDialog ">
</activityPatternBinding>

<activityPatternBinding
activityId="com.xyz.ui.disable"

pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide/org.eclipse.ui.openLocalFile">
</activityPatternBinding>

I tried this for the Close Project action :

<activityPatternBinding
activityId="com.xyz.ui.disable"

pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide/org.eclipse.ui.project.closeProject ">
</activityPatternBinding>

but that does not work.

Any thoughts on what could be wrong ??
Any help will be appreciated.
thanks a ton.
dilip

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #493610 is a reply to message #334080]

Tue, 27 October 2009 04:57

Eclipse User

Hi, I just copy my working activities from plugin.xml (put attention that pattern is a regexp). Other possiblity is to remove activities in the run time - see below. Hope it helps. Stella
------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">

<activity
name = "Exclude GUI"
description="Exclude GUI"
id="org.mlnx.activity.excludeFromGUI">
</activity>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.mlnx.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern="org\.eclipse\..*quickdiff.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.mlnx.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern="org\.eclipse\.search.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.mlnx.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern="org.eclipse.ui.editors\/org\.eclipse\.ui\.edi
t\.text\.gotoLastEditPosition">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="org.mlnx.activity.excludeFromGUI"
pattern="org\.eclipse\..*externaltools.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
</extension>
------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------
public class ApplicationActionBarAdvisor extends ActionBarAdvisor {
// Actions to remove
private String actionId = "org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.actionSet.convertLineDelim
itersTo";
ActionSetRegistry reg = WorkbenchPlugin.getDefault().getActionSetRegis
try();
IActionSetDescriptor[] actionSets = reg.getActionSets();
for (int i = 0; i <actionSets.length; i++) {
if (!actionSets[i].getId().equals(actionId)) continue;
IExtension ext = actionSets[i].getConfigurationElement()
.getDeclaringExtension();
reg.removeExtension(ext, new Object[] { actionSets[i] });
}

------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #493644 is a reply to message #493582]

Tue, 27 October 2009 09:02

Eclipse User

Dilip G wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 00:32

I tried this for the Close Project action :

<activityPatternBinding
activityId="com.xyz.ui.disable"

pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide/org.eclipse.ui.project.closeProject ">
</activityPatternBinding>

but that does not work.

Close and Open project are added in the WorkbenchActionBuilder (for an IDE based application). If you're in RCP you can just "not add them" yourself. If you're based on the IDE, there's no easy way to remove them (activities won't work, they're programmatic contributions). Its ID is closeProject from IDEActionFactory

In 3.5 you can always org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions to hide the menu item by ID.

PW

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #493645 is a reply to message #493610]

Tue, 27 October 2009 09:03

Eclipse User

Stella wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 04:57

------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------
public class ApplicationActionBarAdvisor extends ActionBarAdvisor {
// Actions to remove
private String actionId = "org.eclipse.ui.edit.text.actionSet.convertLineDelim
itersTo";
ActionSetRegistry reg = WorkbenchPlugin.getDefault().getActionSetRegis
try();
IActionSetDescriptor[] actionSets = reg.getActionSets();
for (int i = 0; i <actionSets.length; i++) {
if (!actionSets[i].getId().equals(actionId)) continue;
IExtension ext = actionSets[i].getConfigurationElement()
.getDeclaringExtension();
reg.removeExtension(ext, new Object[] { actionSets[i] });
}

------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------

Just a note ... this is not guaranteed to exist from one release to the next (even between 3.5.0 and 3.5.1 for example) and it definitely won't work reliably within one session (if there's any dynamic content going on).

PW

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #494304 is a reply to message #493644]

Fri, 30 October 2009 02:23

Eclipse User

Thanks a lot Stella and Paul.

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #798331 is a reply to message #493644]

Tue, 14 February 2012 09:53

Eclipse User

Paul Webster wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 09:02

Dilip G wrote on Tue, 27 October 2009 00:32

I tried this for the Close Project action :

<activityPatternBinding
activityId="com.xyz.ui.disable"

pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide/org.eclipse.ui.project.closeProject ">
</activityPatternBinding>

but that does not work.

Close and Open project are added in the WorkbenchActionBuilder (for an IDE based application). If you're in RCP you can just "not add them" yourself. If you're based on the IDE, there's no easy way to remove them (activities won't work, they're programmatic contributions). Its ID is closeProject from IDEActionFactory

In 3.5 you can always org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions to hide the menu item by ID.

PW

I have an eclipse plug-in, NOT an RCP, in which I need to remove the Project menu as I will be exporting this plug-in as a product which has no Project menu. From your message, does this mean that it is not possible to remove the eclipse menus using activities?

I have tried every combination of a pattern in the activity with project and it just doesn't seem to remove it. I am able to remove views such as the Project Explorer but I am not able to with menus.

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #808452 is a reply to message #798331]

Mon, 27 February 2012 15:02

Eclipse User

Correct, if you are based on the ide application (using WorkbenchActionBuilder) there is no way to remove the Project menu.

PW

Re: activities and filter out GUI [message #1603438 is a reply to message #493554]

Fri, 06 February 2015 01:45

Eclipse User

Hi Craig,

could you please let me know how you removed all menu items from the eclipse.

Thanks,
Manish

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