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Click a menu button to display the drop down list [message #778106]

Wed, 11 January 2012 12:18

Leung Wang Hei

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Registered: July 2010

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I have a button at the main toolbar with drop-down style. A few
children actions are attached.

How could I show the drop-down list (showing those sub-actions) when
clicking at the top button?

Thanks,
Leung Wang Hei

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Re: Click a menu button to display the drop down list [message #778634 is a reply to message #778106]

Fri, 13 January 2012 15:23

Grant Gayed

Messages: 2150
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

For an example of how this works at the swt level see
http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet67.java
..

Hopefully this is what you're looking for, if not then please follow up
here and someone else may have a higher-level answer for you.

Grant

On 1/11/2012 7:18 AM, Leung Wang Hei wrote:
> I have a button at the main toolbar with drop-down style. A few children
> actions are attached.
>
> How could I show the drop-down list (showing those sub-actions) when
> clicking at the top button?
>
> Thanks,
> Leung Wang Hei

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Re: Click a menu button to display the drop down list [message #779567 is a reply to message #778634]

Mon, 16 January 2012 04:03

Leung Wang Hei

Messages: 64
Registered: July 2010

Member

Thanks Grant, that's the effect I am looking for but the main menu in my
app is added via plugin.xml.

Could you please give me some hint that how I could do the same trick then?

On 1/13/2012 11:23 PM, Grant Gayed wrote:
> For an example of how this works at the swt level see
> http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet67.java
> .
>
> Hopefully this is what you're looking for, if not then please follow up
> here and someone else may have a higher-level answer for you.
>
> Grant
>
>
> On 1/11/2012 7:18 AM, Leung Wang Hei wrote:
>> I have a button at the main toolbar with drop-down style. A few children
>> actions are attached.
>>
>> How could I show the drop-down list (showing those sub-actions) when
>> clicking at the top button?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Leung Wang Hei
>

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Re: Click a menu button to display the drop down list [message #779838 is a reply to message #779567]

Mon, 16 January 2012 16:39

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

It matters how it is added in the plugin.xml. If you use org.eclipse.ui.menus, you can provide a separate entry to manage the menu dropped down from the tool item.

See http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework and http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions for more info.

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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