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Add actions from different plugins [message #334974]

Fri, 13 March 2009 04:43

Ravi

Messages: 8
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello,

How to programmatically add actions from two different plug-ins to the
same menubarPath in a popup menu?

In the first plug-in (lets call plug-in A), I create a menu and add an
action in the popup menu.

From a second plug-in (lets call plug-in B), I need to add an action
"Action 2" to the menubarPath "MenuID/SeparatorName". How can this be
achieved?

Basically, I want to achieve the below -
MenuName -> Action 1 (MenuName and Action 1 is from plug-in A)
Action 2 (Action 2 is from plug-in B)

Thanks.

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Re: Add actions from different plugins [message #334989 is a reply to message #334974]

Fri, 13 March 2009 17:00

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

With actions, this only works for
org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus/objectContributions

With commands you can more easily create submenus and contribute to them
separately.

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/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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Re: Add actions from different plugins [message #335002 is a reply to message #334989]

Sat, 14 March 2009 23:21

Ravi

Messages: 8
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Thanks for the response, Paul.

I read through the example of using commands to create submenus and
commands in views.

I added the below in the plugin.xml to dynamically add a command. In the
class TestCompoundContributionItem, method getContributionItems(), I
return a contribution item. I also implemented the handler class. This
command shows up in all popup menus. How can I filter for specific
resource objects?

<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.menus">
<menuContribution
locationURI="popup:org.eclipse.ui.popup.any?after=additions ">
<dynamic
class="com.actions.TestCompoundContributionItem"
id="com.actions.TestCompoundContributionItem">
</dynamic>
</menuContribution>
</extension>

<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.commands">
<category
id="com.actions.TestCommandCategory"
name="Test Command Category">
</category>
<command
categoryId="com.actions.TestCommandCategory"
id="com.actions.TestCommand"
name="Test Command">
</command>
</extension>

<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.handlers">
<handler
class="com.actions.TestHandler"
commandId="com.actions.TestCommand">
</handler>
</extension>

Extending the above, how can I create a submenu and then add a command
(action) to the submenu in a popup menu? Which call back do I need to
implement?

Just to be clear, here is what I plan to achieve in the popup menu. On a
right-click in the package explorer,
plug-in A should create a submenu (lets say SubMenuName) and add an action
("Action 1")
plug-in B should an action ("Action 2") to the submenu created by plug-in A

Appreciate your help.

Paul Webster wrote:

> With actions, this only works for
> org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus/objectContributions

> With commands you can more easily create submenus and contribute to them
> separately.

> PW

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