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Move External Tools Menu Items to Toolbar? [message #523497]

Fri, 26 March 2010 11:44

Eclipse User

Hello everyone,

Is there anyway to add a button to one of the tools bars or to hook them up to a shortcut key?

Just looking for someway to move them out of the External Tools drop down menu.

Thanks!

Re: Move External Tools Menu Items to Toolbar? [message #523749 is a reply to message #523497]

Mon, 29 March 2010 03:44

Eclipse User

In which context do you want to do this?

For doing it in your own plugin, please read the documentation/tutorials about commands. There should be described everything about this topic...

A good starting point I can recommend are the Eclipse RPC tutorial and the Command tutorial from Lars Vogel (the latter you find here: http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseCommands/article.html), or the book Eclipse plugins from Clayberg/Rubel.

[Updated on: Mon, 29 March 2010 03:46] by Moderator

Re: Move External Tools Menu Items to Toolbar? [message #524333 is a reply to message #523497]

Wed, 31 March 2010 10:31

Eclipse User

Ryan wrote:
> Is there anyway to add a button to one of the tools bars or to hook them
> up to a shortcut key?
> Just looking for someway to move them out of the External Tools drop
> down menu.

You mean you have created a specific external tool launch config (ant
runMyFile.xml for example) and now you'd like an easy way to execute that?

There is a "Run Last Launched External Tool" command that could be bound
to a key of your choosing, if you just want an easy way to re-execute
one external tool.

You can also assign a key binding to open the external tools dialog
(which is easy to select a config and launch it).

PW

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Paul Webster
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
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