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Context menu in a Form Dialog [message #493867]

Wed, 28 October 2009 10:29

Willie Zayas

Messages: 1
Registered: October 2009

Junior Member

Hi all, this might be a silly question. I hope that you can help
me out with this. Rolling Eyes

I developed an application using views(extend ViewPart) and
perspectives, one of these views had a TableViewer which had
associated a Context Menu using the following code:

/**
* Contextual menu initialization
*/
private void initializeMenu() {
MenuManager menuManager = new MenuManager();
Menu menu = menuManager.createContextMenu(table);
table.setMenu(menu);
getSite().registerContextMenu(menuManager, tableViewer);
getSite().setSelectionProvider(tableViewer);
}

The menu was registred as a contribution associated with the View (as
recommended in most books and tutorials) in the plugin.xml file using
the following id:
popup:com.adeo.pyxis.uicustomer.search.customerSearchResults View

By client request I had to migrate the application to dialogs, so I
chose to extend the FormDialog class and put there the code on the
views. So far everything has worked fine except for the context menu
which does not work. I had to comment out the last two lines of the
initializeMenu() method since the getSite() method is not available to
the form dialog. I've read that the context menus can only be
associated with a View, is this true? is there a workaround for this?

Thanks in advance,

Willie

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Re: Context menu in a Form Dialog [message #644795 is a reply to message #493867]

Tue, 14 December 2010 09:35

suvidh Mising name

Messages: 5
Registered: December 2010

Junior Member

I have a similar question with Dialog window where i have to perform right click on the Treeviewer for the context menu to appear, even here we don't have view to associate [plugin.xml]. please let me know if there is any workaround.

Thanks
Suvidh

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Re: Context menu in a Form Dialog [message #644850 is a reply to message #493867]

Tue, 14 December 2010 13:24

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

Long and the short of it. If you are not in a view, you cannot use a view context menu, since the view you care about *may not be active* when you are in the dialog.

You can, however, continue to use org.eclipse.ui.menus in a dialog, simply specify your own menu id.

You can use IMenuService#populateContributions(*) with popup:unique.dialog.id ... remember to release the contributions when you don't need that MenuManager any more.

PW

Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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