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popup menu: dynamic objectContribution [message #511184]

Sat, 30 January 2010 20:16

zos rothko

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Registered: January 2010

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Hi

I need to have a dynamic popup menu objectContribution like exits a dynamic menuContribution. Can someone explain me if this is possible in M3.5 and how to do it??

Otherwise, I would suggest to make an RFE for this kind of dynamic menu that needs to know on which object there were activated...

Thanks for you help

zosrothko

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Re: popup menu: dynamic objectContribution [message #512009 is a reply to message #511184]

Wed, 03 February 2010 16:07

Paul Webster

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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There is no way to use a pulldown action in an object contribution.

But you can use menuContribution to supply a dynamic
org.eclipse.ui.actions.CompoundContributionItem to a popup. You can use
visibleWhen to restrict it similar to objectClass.

PW

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http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Paul Webster
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
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Re: popup menu: dynamic objectContribution [message #512077 is a reply to message #512009]

Wed, 03 February 2010 20:04

zos rothko

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Registered: January 2010

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My popup dynamic contributionItem values are depending on the value of the initially selection object, and since this object is never passed to the menuContribution, I can't implement the dynamic items of the popup...

for example, having 2 objects A & B in a TreeViewer, the popup submenu should display A1, A2 when A is selected and B1, B2, B3, B4 when B is selected...

Did I misunderstand something from your answer??

TIA for your reply.

zosrothko

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Re: popup menu: dynamic objectContribution [message #512567 is a reply to message #512077]

Fri, 05 February 2010 14:09

Paul Webster

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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While not elegant, you can implement
org.eclipse.ui.menus.IWorkbenchContribution which will give you a
service locator. If you want to know what the selection for your popup,
is, use:

evalService = (IEvaluationService) locator
.getService(IEvaluationService.class);
Object selection = evalService.getCurrentState()
.getVariable(ISources.ACTIVE_MENU_SELECTION_NAME);

PW

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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

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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Re: popup menu: dynamic objectContribution [message #512749 is a reply to message #512567]

Sun, 07 February 2010 09:35

zos rothko

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Registered: January 2010

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Hi Paul

Thank for your help.. it works as expected...

Anyway, I am wondering why do you consider this solution as non elegant?? Also, I am wondering why the selected object is not forwarded to menuContribution in all case??
Is this something missing from the spec, or another reason?

zos

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Re: popup menu: dynamic objectContribution [message #513235 is a reply to message #512749]

Tue, 09 February 2010 13:15

Paul Webster

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

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zosrothko@orange.fr wrote:
> Anyway, I am wondering why do you consider this solution as non
> elegant??

It's technically correct, just a little verbose, that's all.

> Also, I am wondering why the selected object is not forwarded
> to menuContribution in all case??
> Is this something missing from the spec, or another reason?

Because the menu contribution is normally a View component (not model or
control), and most view components don't have code associated with them
at all. But they can reach out to the "model" or in your case
application state.

PW

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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

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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