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Mon, 23 July 2012 10:11

Eclipse User

Hi,

i use two plugins. Each plugin should add an new Command to an existing Menuitem.
But instead of adding the Command to the existing Menuitem, each plugin creates it's own Menuitem.
The new Command is defined with an Extension in the plugin.xml . I'm using Eclipse 4.2

Is it possible to extend an existing Menuitem instead of creating a new one?

Re: Extend existing Menu [message #897552 is a reply to message #897297]

Tue, 24 July 2012 09:23

Eclipse User

AFAIK, no that is not possible. What are you trying to accomplish by extending menu items?

If you are looking to supply different behavior, that is what handlers are for. You can write multiple handlers for a single command and annotate them with @CanExecute and @Execute. @CanExecute is called to determine if a handler should be active, so you can insert your logic to distinguish between the two handlers.

Re: Extend existing Menu [message #898717 is a reply to message #897552]

Fri, 27 July 2012 06:36

Eclipse User

Hi,

you can contribute to your existing menu via fragments. For an example please see Eclipse Modularity.

Best regards, Lars

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