| menu creation techniques [message #399377] |
Thu, 09 December 2004 20:06  |
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Originally posted by: Lamont_Gilbert.rigidsoftware.com
Since i have an rcp app and have to populate the menus all myself, I am
wndering if anyone has recommendations on how to do this. Currently I
have implemented the file menu in the manifest, and it was very large
and it does not seem like a good way to implement all of my menus and
items in my menubar.
Is there any other way? Any examples?
Any help you can offer i will appreciate.
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| Re: menu creation techniques [message #400265 is a reply to message #399386] |
Fri, 10 December 2004 21:51  |
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The recommended way of doing this is to provide the basic, always-on,
menus, menu-items, and toolbars in the workbench advisor, and then
define any that are optional in action sets.
Action sets give you more flexibility. For example, you can associate
them with specific perspectives, parts, activities, etc, so that they
only appear when appropriate.
To see this, take a look at the different action sets in the IDE in
Window > Customize Perspective > Commands (actions are called commands
in the UI), then play around with opening the Java editor in the Java
perspective vs. the Resource perspective.
Action sets do have their limitations though. For example, action sets
were not designed to build on each other, just the substrate defined by
the application (now done in WorkbenchAdvisor.fillActionBars).
Nick
CL [dnoyeb] Gilbert wrote:
> CL [dnoyeb] Gilbert wrote:
>
>> Since i have an rcp app and have to populate the menus all myself, I
>> am wndering if anyone has recommendations on how to do this.
>> Currently I have implemented the file menu in the manifest, and it was
>> very large and it does not seem like a good way to implement all of my
>> menus and items in my menubar.
>>
>> Is there any other way? Any examples?
>>
>> Any help you can offer i will appreciate.
>>
>>
>>
> I think i see I can do this in the workbenchAdvisor now. sweet.
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