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Eclipse 3.6: org.eclipse.ui.commands.IElementUpdater - How to update before beeing executed? [message #633656] Mon, 18 October 2010 17:28 Go to next message
Jan Kohnert is currently offline Jan KohnertFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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Hello,

I've some commands that have org.eclipse.ui.handlers that implement their behavior. This handlers implement org.eclipse.ui.commands.IElementUpdater to update the label and description of the menu entries being used. I discovered that as long one command has not been executed, its handler stays uninitialized and thus the updateElement is not getting executed at all.
How can I make the handler to get created (I realy mean created, calling c'tor and stuff, not executed) before the command has been used? It's hard to explain when commands have proper labeling after being used, but not before... Smile

Thanks!
Re: Eclipse 3.6: org.eclipse.ui.commands.IElementUpdater - How to update before beeing executed? [message #633768 is a reply to message #633656] Tue, 19 October 2010 10:57 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Prakash G.R. is currently offline Prakash G.R.Friend
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On 18/10/10 10:58 PM, Jan Kohnert wrote:
> I've some commands that have org.eclipse.ui.handlers that implement
> their behavior. This handlers implement
> org.eclipse.ui.commands.IElementUpdater to update the label and
> description of the menu entries being used. I discovered that as long
> one command has not been executed, its handler stays uninitialized and
> thus the updateElement is not getting executed at all. How can I make
> the handler to get created (I realy mean created, calling c'tor and
> stuff, not executed) before the command has been used? It's hard to
> explain when commands have proper labeling after being used, but not
> before... :)

Eclipse tries lazy loading of the plugins. So unless your plugin is
loaded, the updateElement of your handler won't be called. You can
probably extend org.eclipse.ui.startup to activate your plugin, which
should be done with care, as if affects the Eclipse startup performance.

What is your usecase?

- Prakash
Platform UI Team, IBM

www.eclipse-tips.com
Re: Eclipse 3.6: org.eclipse.ui.commands.IElementUpdater - How to update before beeing executed? [message #777563 is a reply to message #633656] Tue, 10 January 2012 17:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Robert Longo is currently offline Robert LongoFriend
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Registered: March 2011
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I believe that this is a bug in Eclipse. Here's the work-around:

Initializing the Handler

It may happen that your radio menu contributions are not initialized the first time the menu is displayed. This is because at this time, your Handler might not yet have been instantiated (this is due to Eclipse's lazy loading policy). If this is the case, you can enforce the instantiation of your Handler within the Activator of your plug-in. Just add the following code to the start(BundleContext) method:

UIJob job = new UIJob("InitCommandsWorkaround") {
 
    public IStatus runInUIThread(@SuppressWarnings("unused") IProgressMonitor monitor) {
 
        ICommandService commandService = (ICommandService) PlatformUI
            .getWorkbench().getActiveWorkbenchWindow().getService(
                ICommandService.class);
        Command command = commandService.getCommand("z.ex.dropdown.radio");
        command.isEnabled();
        return new Status(IStatus.OK,
            "my.plugin.id",
            "Init commands workaround performed succesfully");
    }
 
};
job.schedule();
Re: Eclipse 3.6: org.eclipse.ui.commands.IElementUpdater - How to update before beeing executed? [message #778693 is a reply to message #777563] Fri, 13 January 2012 16:39 Go to previous message
Paul Webster is currently offline Paul WebsterFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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I'll just point out 2 things:

1) The pattern for creating radio menus or toggle menus/buttons using commands can be found at http://blog.eclipse-tips.com/2009/03/commands-part-6-toggle-radio-menu.html

2) It's perfectly acceptable to early-start your bundle in an RCP app. It's generally less acceptable in the community to early start a UI bundle, except in a few circumstances. The "correct enablement" of a menu item is not one of those circumstances.

PW


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