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Tue, 15 September 2009 05:35

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: victor.conesa.justinmind.com

Hi all,

I've recently moved from eclipse 3.4 to eclipse 3.5 and I ve found some
problems. I have a RCP application running on MacOS that was previously
running over Carbon and now is running over Cocoa. The first issue is how to
make the Preferences appear at the Main Menu of the application. The other
is how to register my own About action. I've search over the web some weeks
but I didn't found any clues. Could you please give me a hand on this?

Thanks in advance!

Re: Register preferences action on cocoa [message #485948 is a reply to message #485835]

Tue, 15 September 2009 11:58

Eclipse User

See how the openPreferencesAction is added to the Window menu in org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.WorkbenchActionBuilder. That class will also provide an example of adding the about action to the Help menu.

org.eclipse.ui.internal.cocoa.CocoaUIEnhancer should hook up the Mac Preferences and About menu items.

PW

Re: Register preferences action on cocoa [message #486438 is a reply to message #485948]

Thu, 17 September 2009 11:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: victor.conesa.justinmind.com

Hi all,

Thanks for the answer. I've taken a look at WorkbenchActionBuilder and I did
the same on my ActionBarAdvisor but it didn't worked. What I did was to
insert this lines on the "makeActions" method of the ActionBarAdvisor class
I'm using in my RCP application:

aboutAction = ActionFactory.ABOUT.create(window);
register(aboutAction);

and then I added to the "fillMenuBar" method of the same class this lines:

ActionContributionItem aboutItem = new ActionContributionItem(aboutAction);
aboutItem.setVisible(!Util.isMac());
helpMenu.add(aboutItem);

But the only thing that appears when I launch the product and select the
"[Product name] -> About [Product Name]" menu option is the strange about
dialog I attach with this email.

I'm quite frustrated with this...

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> escribi

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Re: Register preferences action on cocoa [message #487051 is a reply to message #486438]

Mon, 21 September 2009 12:47

Eclipse User

I was not able to see the PNG (GIMP says it is corrupt). Could you try again?

PW

Re: Register preferences action on cocoa [message #487368 is a reply to message #485835]

Tue, 22 September 2009 17:31

Eclipse User

Víctor Conesa schrieb:
> Hi all,
>
> I've recently moved from eclipse 3.4 to eclipse 3.5 and I ve found some
> problems. I have a RCP application running on MacOS that was previously
> running over Carbon and now is running over Cocoa. The first issue is how to
> make the Preferences appear at the Main Menu of the application. The other
> is how to register my own About action. I've search over the web some weeks
> but I didn't found any clues. Could you please give me a hand on this?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
the code responsible for making preference action in the app menu work
is in org.eclipse.ui.cocoa fragment... I think if you include that
fragment it does it will work automagically... though you can also look
in it what it does and reimplement it on oyur own...

Re: Register preferences action on cocoa [message #500448 is a reply to message #487051]

Thu, 26 November 2009 03:49

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: victor.conesa.justinmind.com

Solved. It works on the exported product but not inside Eclipse.
"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> escribi

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