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Change Text of Toolbar button [message #509451]

Fri, 22 January 2010 08:26

Eclipse User

Hey all,

i have the following problem: I have a view and added some buttons to the toolbar of the view. Now i want that the text of the buttons changing when the button was pressed, i.e. the text of the button is "login" and after pressing the button, the text should be "logout". I tried to use the IElementupdater, but i have the problem that my button is disappearing when i press it. I also added the Command to my Filemenu, there it works properly. What can i do? Here is the simple Handler code:

public class TestHandler extends AbstractHandler implements IElementUpdater {
    @Override
    public Object execute( ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException {
        System.out.println("TestHandler.execute()");
        return null;
    }
    @Override
    public void updateElement( UIElement element, Map parameters) {
        element.setText("Another text");
    }
}

Thanks a lot.
Thomas

Re: Change Text of Toolbar button [message #509917 is a reply to message #509451]

Mon, 25 January 2010 13:47

Eclipse User

T. Wilhelm wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> i have the following problem: I have a view and added some buttons to
> the toolbar of the view. Now i want that the text of the buttons
> changing when the button was pressed, i.e. the text of the button is
> "login" and after pressing the button, the text should be "logout". I
> tried to use the IElementupdater, but i have the problem that my button
> is disappearing when i press it. I also added the Command to my
> Filemenu, there it works properly. What can i do? Here is the simple
> Handler code:
>
>
> public class TestHandler extends AbstractHandler implements
> IElementUpdater {
> @Override
> public Object execute( ExecutionEvent event) throws ExecutionException {
> System.out.println("TestHandler.execute()");
> return null;
> }
> @Override
> public void updateElement( UIElement element, Map parameters) {
> element.setText("Another text");
> }
> }

I think you're seeing a layout problem. What if you try starting with
"loginhexadecimal" and then switch to "logout"?

PW

--
Paul Webster
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Re: Change Text of Toolbar button [message #510023 is a reply to message #509917]

Tue, 26 January 2010 04:31

Eclipse User

Hi Paul,

i also thought about a Layout problem, and so i tried it like you mentioned with "LoginHexadecimal" and "Logout". Well it worked, but thats no adequate solution or workaround.

Ok i got it, i got the toolbar of my view and called upate(). Now it works.

Thanks alot
Thomas

[Updated on: Tue, 26 January 2010 04:40] by Moderator

Re: Change Text of Toolbar button [message #510072 is a reply to message #510023]

Tue, 26 January 2010 08:10

Eclipse User

T. Wilhelm wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> i also thought about a Layout problem, and so i tried it like you
> mentioned with "LoginHexadecimal" and "Logout". Well it worked, but
> thats no adequate solution or workaround. Is there a way to force the
> toolbar to layout() again ? Any other idea?

This is an existing bug, https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=97522

One thing you could try is to update the actionbars:
IActionBars bars = viewPart.getViewSite().getActionBars();
bars.updateActionBars();

That does try to do a re-layout, but not always successfully.

--
Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Re: Change Text of Toolbar button [message #510305 is a reply to message #510072]

Wed, 27 January 2010 03:03

Eclipse User

Hi Paul,

thanks again for your answer, i already used the code you´ve mentioned, and until now it works proper and bug-free Wink

It is a little bit unbeautiful, that the size of the button changes, but we can live with that fact.

Thanks + have a great day,

Thomas

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