| Including "standard" actions in popups (context menus) [message #42452] |
Wed, 21 May 2003 12:43  |
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Originally posted by: daniel_nospam.enigmatec.net
Hi there,
I'm developing a view to act as a specialised resource navigator over
project resources in our plug in.
As part of this development I'd like to provide the "standard" actions you
see in context menus in other views such as the Resource Navigator and the
JDT Package Explorer. Such actions are the "New..." (which leads to a
submenu), "Open" etc. Obviously as well as displaying the actions I'd want
the action itself to be handed of to the "default" handler (whatever that
is).
I assumed it'd be an easy matter of adding a specific GroupMarker to the
menu from the IWorkbenchActionConstants interface but I've had no luck - no
errors but nothing shows up. Obviously I do this when the menuAboutToShow()
method is run.
I've had a look at how the JDT does it but it's rather complex. Is there an
easy way of accomplishing this?
Thanks, Dan
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| Re: Including "standard" actions in popups (context menus) [message #44963 is a reply to message #44380] |
Fri, 23 May 2003 03:58  |
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Originally posted by: daniel_nospam.enigmatec.net
"Knut Radloff" <knut_radloff@oti.com> wrote in
news:baj493$3q3$1@rogue.oti.com:
Thanks for the reply Knut.
In the end yesterday I solved this myself, but I can see where you're
coming from when you say merely extend the ResourceNavigator. The issue
there is that I've used this project as a tutorial into Eclipse development
so I've been walking a winding path to my destination, if you will.
In the end I actually solved it with reference to the Package Explorer in
the JDT, which I've used as my model of development a lot so far as there
is some shared functionality.
What I have is an ActionGroup specialisation which handles the filling of
context menus etc. The ActionGroups children then delegate to the core
Eclipse Actions such as New... Open etc.
Again, thanks for your time, Dan
> The ResourceNavigator creates a MainActionGroup that creates subgroups
> with actions for the context menu, workbench menus, toolbar etc.
> If you subclass from ResourceNavigator you should get the default
> menu. Unfortunately there is no good way to customize this other than
> adding actions to the MB_ADDITIONS group. If you want to do more you
> have to copy the MainActionGroup.
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> One 3.0 plan item is to make the Navigator easier to customize and
> most importantly reduce the need for specialized Navigator style
> views. Please see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=36961
> and add a description of your use case and what you would need to
> customise in the existing Navigator. Do you see a real need for a
> separate view or could you use the regular Navigator if it had better
> ways to tailor it to your content, actions etc.
>
> Knut
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