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Menu visible when selection is a subclass of StructuredSelection [message #546977]

Wed, 14 July 2010 19:34

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I have a class: MyStructuredSelection (extends StructuredSelection).

Under certain circumstances I set the selection as an instance of MyStructuredSelection using:

getSite.getSelectionProvider.setSelection(new MyStructuredSelection(...))

I would like to have certain menu contributions visible only when the selection is an instance of MyStructuredSelection.

Is there a way to do set menu visibility based on the type of the selection?

Thank you
Mark Lovell

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Re: Menu visible when selection is a subclass of StructuredSelection [message #547069 is a reply to message #546977]

Thu, 15 July 2010 12:12

Paul Webster

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Do you mean org.eclipse.ui.menus/menuContributions? visibleWhen (core
expressions) supports <instanceof />

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
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http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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Re: Menu visible when selection is a subclass of StructuredSelection [message #547129 is a reply to message #547069]

Thu, 15 July 2010 15:58

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Thank you for replying.

Yes I am using org.eclipse.ui.menus/menuContributions.

The visibleWhen processes the objects in the selection's list (selection.toList()) not the selection object (ISelection) itself.

Therefore "instanceof" acts on the objects within the selection's list.

I am hoping to find a way to set a menu's visbility based on the type of the selection (ex MyStructuredSelection extends StructuredSelection) regardless of the objects it contains.

Thoughts?

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