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Re: [ease-dev] Extend main toolbar
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2017-01-11 22:22 GMT+01:00 Christian Pontesegger <christian.pontesegger@xxxxxx>:
> On 11.01.2017 21:26, Raphael Geissler wrote:
>>
>> Hi *,
>>
>> if I understood it correctly we cannot extend the main toolbar at the
>> moment by scripts.
>> I did some prototyping to check how this could be done.
>>
>> The result is quite successful, I committed my prototype plug-in here:
>> https://github.com/rage5474/de.ragedev.example.dynamictoolbar/
>
>
> Looks great already.
>
>> In this example the toolbar change is triggered by a menu item not by
>> a script registration, but it uses also an eventbus message, so it
>> should be somehow similar. After clicking the button a new icon is
>> shown in the main tool bar.
>>
>> The important class is this one here:
>>
>> https://github.com/rage5474/de.ragedev.example.dynamictoolbar/blob/master/src/de.ragedev.example.dynamictoolbar/src/de/ragedev/example/dynamictoolbar/dynamictoolbarhandler/DynamicToolbarItemHandler.java
>
> You are modifying the e4 model directly. That's exact the way we should do
> it.
>
>> If you want we can integrate it in EASE.
>
> Yes, please. I would love to replace the whole mechanism for toolbar and
> menu extensions by modifying the underlying e4 model. Currently scripts
> cannot contribute to pure e4 views. Its simply luck that most projects did
> not migrate so far, but this will become a problem in the future.
>
> Do you think you can extend your main toolbar implementation to work for
> view toolbars & menus, too?
As far as I know every UI element is specified there, so I'm sure that
this also works. What I have to check is, if elements that were
specified via 3.x API can be also found in the e4 model.
Do we have a ticket for this task?
> Christian
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Raphael
