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Thu, 07 December 2006 08:27

Eclipse User

Hi

How do I define the help menu and about action in plugin.xml ? I am
trying not to use ApplicationActionBarAdvisor.java...

Furthermore, how do I control the order the menus and toolbar actions
are presented in on the screen?

Is it possible?

thanks,
Henrik

Re: Help menu [message #459877 is a reply to message #459833]

Fri, 08 December 2006 03:41

Eclipse User

Henrik Skovgaard wrote:
> How do I define the help menu and about action in plugin.xml ? I am
> trying not to use ApplicationActionBarAdvisor.java...
>
> Furthermore, how do I control the order the menus and toolbar actions
> are presented in on the screen?
>
> Is it possible?
>

Anyone please? Just a snippet if it's possible...

Re: Help menu [message #459878 is a reply to message #459877]

Fri, 08 December 2006 03:48

Eclipse User

Henrik,
To add a help menu what you've to do is just add the following piece of
code in the fillMenuBar()method in the ApplicationActionBarAdvisor class.

MenuManager helpMenu = new
MenuManager("&Help",IWorkbenchActionConstants.M_HELP);

regards,
Srivatsan

Re: Help menu [message #459879 is a reply to message #459878]

Fri, 08 December 2006 03:55

Eclipse User

Srivatsan wrote:
> Henrik,
> To add a help menu what you've to do is just add the following piece of
> code in the fillMenuBar()method in the ApplicationActionBarAdvisor class.
>
> MenuManager helpMenu = new
> MenuManager("&Help",IWorkbenchActionConstants.M_HELP);
>
> regards, Srivatsan
>

Yes thanks I did know that, but then the menu is drawn before those
defined in plugin.xml - how to I control the order they appear in?

/Henrik

Re: Help menu [message #459881 is a reply to message #459879]

Fri, 08 December 2006 04:00

Eclipse User

Thats simple. You need to add the menu to the menubar in the order in
which you want them to be displayed.
like

menuBar.add(fileMenu);
menuBar.add(helpMenu);
this wud put File menu at the first position and then the Help menu

regards,
Srivatsan

Re: Help menu [message #459882 is a reply to message #459881]

Fri, 08 December 2006 04:08

Eclipse User

Srivatsan wrote:
> Thats simple. You need to add the menu to the menubar in the order in
> which you want them to be displayed.
> like
>
> menuBar.add(fileMenu);
> menuBar.add(helpMenu);
> this wud put File menu at the first position and then the Help menu
>
> regards,
> Srivatsan

Yes, but I also have menus defined in my plugin.xml, like this:

<menu
id="mviMenu"
label="MVI &Menu">
<separator name="mvi"/>
</menu>
<action
class="dk.reklamedata.mvi.actions.FileOpenAction"
icon="icons/folder_up.png"
id="dk.reklamedata.mvi.actions.FileOpenAction"
label="&Open"
menubarPath="mviMenu/mvi"
toolbarPath="mvi"
tooltip="Open file(s) for import"/>

This menu is drawn after those defined in
ApplicationActionBarAdvisor.java and I can't figure out how to change
the order of them.

Henrik

Re: Help menu [message #459885 is a reply to message #459882]

Fri, 08 December 2006 04:30

Eclipse User

Menus will be shown in the order in which they were created. And i would
like to know which extension you're using. Is it org.eclipse.ui.menu or is
it the org.eclipse.ui.actionsets? am using the latter wherein i'll attach
actions to bothe menubars n toolbars and this extension provides me the
facility to not only declare actions but define menus n associate the
actions with those menus.

Re: Help menu [message #459902 is a reply to message #459882]

Fri, 08 December 2006 09:35

Eclipse User

Henrik Skovgaard wrote:
>
> Yes, but I also have menus defined in my plugin.xml, like this:
>
> <menu
> id="mviMenu"
> label="MVI &Menu">
> <separator name="mvi"/>
> </menu>
> <action
> class="dk.reklamedata.mvi.actions.FileOpenAction"
> icon="icons/folder_up.png"
> id="dk.reklamedata.mvi.actions.FileOpenAction"
> label="&Open"
> menubarPath="mviMenu/mvi"
> toolbarPath="mvi"
> tooltip="Open file(s) for import"/>
>

You need to place the <menu/> element just like you place the <action/>
element. Add an additions group marker in your program, and then place
<menu/> at the group marker.

Check out WorkbenchActionBuilder#fillMenuBar(*)

Later,
PW

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