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Adding menu for perspective Plugin development [message #1833642]

Tue, 20 October 2020 09:40

Duy Tran

Messages: 8
Registered: October 2020

Junior Member

Hello team,

I am creating a customized Perspective in Eclipse E4 plugin development. I created a Perspective and added Part Stack > Part > Menu > Handled Menu Item but when I changed to the new Perspective the Menu did not appear. In the Part Class URI I linked with the follow Java Class:

public class PerspectivePart
{
private Label myLabelInView;

@PostConstruct
public void postConstruct(Composite parent)
{
myLabelInView = new Label(parent, SWT.BORDER);
myLabelInView.setText("This is a sample E4 view");

// MessageDialog.openInformation(null, "E4 Information Dialog", "Goodbye cruel world from a pure Eclipse 4 plug-in");

System.out.println("Perspective opened");
}
}

There was nothing except the string "Perspective opened" printed on the console. Can you show me how to make the menu or a window appear when I open my Perspective?

Thanks and best regards,
Duy Tran

[Updated on: Tue, 20 October 2020 15:50]

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Re: Adding menu for perspective Plugin development [message #1833731 is a reply to message #1833642]

Thu, 22 October 2020 18:44

Wim Jongman

Messages: 493
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

You are not setting a layout on the composite. Try parent.setLayout(new FillLayout());

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Re: Adding menu for perspective Plugin development [message #1833769 is a reply to message #1833731]

Fri, 23 October 2020 15:15

Duy Tran

Messages: 8
Registered: October 2020

Junior Member

Hi Wim,

It works!! Thanks. I have another question, do you know how to add the Menu Contribution to the Perspective. It it like whenever I open my Perspective, a Menu Contribution will appear and when I close it, the menu will disappear. I tried to find on google but it seems I don't know the correct key word.

Duy