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Confusion about Eclipse 4.0 Application Model [message #581330] Tue, 31 August 2010 06:44 Go to next message
Ralf Zahn is currently offline Ralf ZahnFriend
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Hi,

I have a Plug-in Project defining a product with an e4 Application Model, and another Plug-in Project that extends the application by some menu items.

When defining commands and handlers in the fragment XMI, I have to specify a String Model Fragment with the feature name "commands" of the element id "<my application id>".

So defining commands/handlers within an e4 Model Fragment does always refer to a single application. So for the definition of common menu entries, I have to use extension points, is that correct?
And e4 Model Fragments within a plugin make the plugin dependent from launching a special product, right?

Hope I expressed the problem understandably.
Re: Confusion about Eclipse 4.0 Application Model [message #581440 is a reply to message #581330] Wed, 08 September 2010 12:22 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Paul Webster is currently offline Paul WebsterFriend
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Ralf Zahn wrote:
> When defining commands and handlers in the fragment XMI, I have to
> specify a String Model Fragment with the feature name "commands" of the
> element id "<my application id>".
>
> So defining commands/handlers within an e4 Model Fragment does always
> refer to a single application. So for the definition of common menu
> entries, I have to use extension points, is that correct?
> And e4 Model Fragments within a plugin make the plugin dependent from
> launching a special product, right?

Extension points for command, etc aren't currently supported in pure e4
applications yet.

If you want re-usable fragments, you have to settle on an "id
convention", as they're simply be applied per-id.

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


Re: Confusion about Eclipse 4.0 Application Model [message #581514 is a reply to message #581330] Thu, 09 September 2010 11:36 Go to previous message
Thomas Schindl is currently offline Thomas SchindlFriend
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Hi,

You are right. Currently the contribution system expects you to know the
ID of the element but for 4.1 I plan to improve it in a way that you can
use XPath expressions one could then contribute to the
MApplication-Element through "/MApplication", ... .

In 4.0 you can use a Processor to generically identify the root element
to contribute a command and do much more fancy contributions (e.g. based
upon a user credential, ...).

If you are not sure how this looks like you can take a look at my
Live-ModelTooling integration which does exactly what you asking for here.

The source is available in:
e4/org.eclipse.e4.tools/bundles/org.eclipse.e4.tools.emf.liv eeditor and
the thing you are interested in is the:
* ModelProcessor
* plugin.xml

Tom

Am 31.08.10 08:44, schrieb Ralf Zahn:
> Hi,
>
> I have a Plug-in Project defining a product with an e4 Application
> Model, and another Plug-in Project that extends the application by some
> menu items.
>
> When defining commands and handlers in the fragment XMI, I have to
> specify a String Model Fragment with the feature name "commands" of the
> element id "<my application id>".
>
> So defining commands/handlers within an e4 Model Fragment does always
> refer to a single application. So for the definition of common menu
> entries, I have to use extension points, is that correct?
> And e4 Model Fragments within a plugin make the plugin dependent from
> launching a special product, right?
>
> Hope I expressed the problem understandably.
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