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Adding a submenu to File -> New [message #449038]

Tue, 09 May 2006 04:33

Eclipse User

Can I add a new submenu below the file -> new menu?

i.e.

I want a menu that looks like...

File
|
|---New
|
|---Location
|
|------Standard Address (launches wizard when clicked)
|
|------Shipping Company (launches wizard when clicked)

I can do the menu structure shown below easily, but I don't know how to
add the "Location" submenu to File -> New

File
|
|---New
|
|------Standard Address (launches wizard when clicked)
|
|------Shipping Company (launches wizard when clicked)

Cheers.
Adrian

Re: Adding a submenu to File -> New [message #449093 is a reply to message #449038]

Wed, 10 May 2006 08:16

Eclipse User

The way that the new wizards are populated at the moment, I don't think that's possible. You could, of course, have just the Location, and then have a multi-page New wizard that asked as the first question whether it was a Standard Address or Shipping Company and customise subsequent pages appropriately.

You might be able to achieve something like this using a compound contribution item and getting it added to the new wizard menu directly (e.g. by adding the contribution item via a perspective) but you'd definitely be working outside the box for this. There's also an assumption that each item has an id which corresponds to a new wizard, so when you selected the submenu (for example) you might not find that selections even work.

That said, it sounds like a good way of categorising menu items so you might want to suggest this as a request for enhancement post 3.2

Alex.

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