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Toolbar Contribution [message #782099]

Mon, 23 January 2012 01:29

Eclipse User

I am trying to get a toolbar contribution over the model service. The id is defined in the Application.e4xmi. An handled item is also defined. The part let inject the MApplication and the EModelService.

But when I try to get the contribution or the item I get always null.

final MUIElement contribution = modelService.find("toolbar-contribution-id", application);
final MUIElement item = modelService.find("toolbar-contribution-item-id", application);

modelService and application are not null...

any hints?
Thx Beat

Re: Toolbar Contribution [message #783510 is a reply to message #782099]

Wed, 25 January 2012 16:21

Eclipse User

EModelService's searches are pretty much restricted to looking at contained children. An MWindow or MPart's toolbar isn't actually considered to be a child of the element but an attribute. The comment is a bit confusing.

In my usage, I've usually wanted to get a tool item relative to either the active window's toolbar or the active part's toolbar, or the toolbar for a particular part, and so been able to avoid the recursive descent of EModelService#find() and friends.

Re: Toolbar Contribution [message #783656 is a reply to message #783510]

Thu, 26 January 2012 02:16

Eclipse User

Am 25.01.12 22:21, schrieb Brian de Alwis:
> EModelService's searches are pretty much restricted to looking at
> contained children. An MWindow or MPart's toolbar isn't actually
> considered to be a child of the element but an attribute. The comment
> is a bit confusing.
>
> In my usage, I've usually wanted to get a tool item relative to either
> the active window's toolbar or the active part's toolbar, or the toolbar
> for a particular part, and so been able to avoid the recursive descent
> of EModelService#find() and friends.

Well IMHO this is a bug in EModelService then. They should simply use an
TreeIterator to find all "children" of an element.

Tom

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