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Enabling and Disabling Paste Icons [message #510268]

Wed, 27 January 2010 01:24

Dhinesh

Messages: 10
Registered: January 2010

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Hello Folks,

I have developed a plug-in for doing copy-Paste feature to copy and paste a particular Object. It is a seperate plug-in. Both Copy and Paste are associated with a View that is contributed by a different plug-in.

So, in short to mention the Plug-in details.

Copy/Paste contributed by com.a.b --> Seperate.
View is provided by com.c.d ->> Seperate

I have used Eclipse copy/paste actions..i.e org.eclipse.ui.copyaction and org.eclipse.ui.pasteaction. I have contributed a pop-up menu Extensions mentioning the action IDs.
Basically Copy/paste works fine,but I want to enable and disable the actions based on the Clipboard contents.

I have written the code in selectionChanged() event of the action class. It's getting fired only when this plug-in is loaded. Until then, the paste action is enabled eventhough there is no relevant data to be pasted.

Now I want to disable it when the Eclipse is launced.

Could anyone of you pls help me with this problem.

Thanks in Advance,
Dhinesh.M

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Re: Enabling and Disabling Paste Icons [message #510470 is a reply to message #510268]

Wed, 27 January 2010 15:19

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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Dhinesh wrote:
> I have written the code in selectionChanged() event of the action class.
> It's getting fired only when this plug-in is loaded. Until then, the
> paste action is enabled eventhough there is no relevant data to be pasted.
>
> Now I want to disable it when the Eclipse is launced.
>
> Could anyone of you pls help me with this problem.

There's no easy answer to this problem. The eclipse general policy is
1) load it later on a user action and 2) not loaded == enabled (most cases).

Because of #1 you need #2 (or your user could never try the action to
load it :-)

The first time it is executed it must call selection changed before it
will run, so if you set it to disabled does the action still run?

PW

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