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Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895275] Thu, 12 July 2012 10:42 Go to next message
becks m is currently offline becks mFriend
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I've made a pop up menu with one menu item, I want to enable it only when I do a right click on a tree item of a certain class type otherwise disable it.

How can I achieve this ?

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895279 is a reply to message #895275] Thu, 12 July 2012 11:26 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Alexander Haag is currently offline Alexander HaagFriend
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Hi,

if your menu item is defined in the plugin.xml you should add an <enabledWhen>-condition to your commandhandler.
If you defined a 'default'-handler in your command-definition you must delete it there and define the handler using 'org.eclipse.ui.handlers'-extension point instead where you can add the enabledWhen-condition.

condition should look like

<enabledWhen>
   <with
      variable="selection">
        <and>
          <count
                value="1">
          </count>
          <iterate>
             <instanceof
                   value="..yourclass...">
              </instanceof>
          </iterate>
       </and>
   </with>
</enabledWhen>


Hope this helps
Greets Alex

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895288 is a reply to message #895279] Thu, 12 July 2012 11:44 Go to previous messageGo to next message
becks m is currently offline becks mFriend
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Alexander Haag wrote on Thu, 12 July 2012 07:26
Hi,

if your menu item is defined in the plugin.xml you should add an <enabledWhen>-condition to your commandhandler.
If you defined a 'default'-handler in your command-definition you must delete it there and define the handler using 'org.eclipse.ui.handlers'-extension point instead where you can add the enabledWhen-condition.

condition should look like

<enabledWhen>
   <with
      variable="selection">
        <and>
          <count
                value="1">
          </count>
          <iterate>
             <instanceof
                   value="..yourclass...">
              </instanceof>
          </iterate>
       </and>
   </with>
</enabledWhen>


Hope this helps
Greets Alex



Thanks Alex for your reply,

I've made what you've told but I still get the menu item enabled even when I select on empty space.
What I've made with menu and handler is attached and what I get when I do right click on empty space.

Am I missing something ?
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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895289 is a reply to message #895288] Thu, 12 July 2012 11:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul Webster is currently offline Paul WebsterFriend
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You have to set ifEmpty to false on the iterate, no?

PW

Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895291 is a reply to message #895289] Thu, 12 July 2012 11:47 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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I did it, but I get the same behavior

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895293 is a reply to message #895291] Thu, 12 July 2012 11:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul Webster is currently offline Paul WebsterFriend
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What do you mean you right-click in "empty space" What does the rest of your view look like when you do that?

Is that view correctly registering a selection provider when it is created?

PW

Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895295 is a reply to message #895293] Thu, 12 July 2012 11:54 Go to previous messageGo to next message
becks m is currently offline becks mFriend
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It is basically a tree which have some tree items and the menu I'mtalking about is a pop up menu, I want to enable the button only when I do select a certain items (items with certain class)

and disable the button when I select any other item or I select the anywhere in my view other than the tree items.

but the case here, is when I do right cliclk on any tree item or any blank space I get the button enabled.

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895298 is a reply to message #895295] Thu, 12 July 2012 11:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul Webster is currently offline Paul WebsterFriend
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1) did you register the tree viewer as the selection provider for that view?

2) What enabledWhen clause are you using, exactly?

3) Let's make sure it works when you right-click on a tree node that's the incorrect type ...

Also, right-clicking in an empty part of a tree widget has no effect on selection, it would only matter if you've cleared the selection some other way.

PW

Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895301 is a reply to message #895298] Thu, 12 July 2012 12:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
becks m is currently offline becks mFriend
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Yes, I did register the tree viewer as the selection provider.

I don't know what you mean by enablewhen clause
but this is the part from plugin.xml if it could help
<extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.handlers">
      <handler
            class="copycmd"
            commandId="copycmd">
         <enabledWhen>
            <with
                  variable="selection">
               <and>
                  <count
                        value="1">
                  </count>
                  <iterate
                        ifEmpty="false"
                        operator="and">
                     <instanceof
                           value="document">
                     </instanceof>
                  </iterate>
               </and>
            </with>
         </enabledWhen>
      </handler>
   </extension>


The menu item I want to enable or disable has dynamic menu items that show up or now show up according to selection of certain tree items in the tree.

so, the behavior is:

When I do right click on item of incorrect type I get the copy menu enabled ! but when I do click on it, it gets disabled!

and for the correct type , if the copy menu is disabled from the first selection m it gets enabled when I do click on the copy menu.

This is weird behavior.

[Updated on: Thu, 12 July 2012 12:08]

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895363 is a reply to message #895301] Thu, 12 July 2012 15:03 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul Webster is currently offline Paul WebsterFriend
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Does your view implement setFocus()?

PW

Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895405 is a reply to message #895363] Thu, 12 July 2012 17:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Yes
public void setFocus() {
		Viewer.getControl().setFocus();
	}

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Re: Enable/Disable menu item in eclipse plugin [message #895406 is a reply to message #895405] Thu, 12 July 2012 17:45 Go to previous message
becks m is currently offline becks mFriend
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Should I implement a class for this command handler even if I don't need it ?

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