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How to get action for main menu item? [message #487341]

Tue, 22 September 2009 15:36

Eclipse User

I would like to invoke an action that was added to the main menu by another plugin upon which my plugin depends. How can I retrieve the action associated with the menu item?

Regards,
Dave

Re: How to get action for main menu item? [message #487411 is a reply to message #487341]

Wed, 23 September 2009 03:29

Eclipse User

dpalmier@us.ibm.com wrote:
> I would like to invoke an action that was added to the main menu by
> another plugin upon which my plugin depends. How can I retrieve the
> action associated with the menu item?

I suggest to use the new command architecture if that is possible for
you and to invoke the command via IHandlerService#executeCommand as
described e.g. in

http://www.vogella.de/articles/EclipseCommands/article.html# commmands_button

If it isn't, maybe the hybrid technique described in

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Platform_Command_Framework #Using_an_IActionDelegate_to_execute_a_command

is acceptable as a workaround for you? I haven't used it myself, but it
looks promising and if you could take advantage of it, you can use the
same programmatic route via IHandlerService#executeCommand as suggested
above.

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

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