Re: [pde-dev] Creating submenus for a pop-up menu

["Jim D'Anjou" <danjou@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Roopa, this is a common source of confusion. Here is an example that works (thanks to John Arthorne, co-author of Official Eclipse 3.0 FAQs www.eclipsefaq.org).

All menu "path" attributes must be of the form "menuPath/group", where "menuPath" can be any number of nested menus. So the path "sampleMenu/subMenu/subSubMenu/sampleGroup" will put an action in a doubly-nested sub menu. Below is a complete example:

<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.actionSets">
<actionSet
label="Profile UI Job"
visible="true"
id="org.eclipse.uijob.perf.actionSet">
<menu
label="Profile UI Job"
id="sampleMenu">
<separator
name="sampleGroup">
</separator>
</menu>
<menu
label="SubMenu1"
path="sampleMenu/sampleGroup"
id="subMenu">
<separator
name="sampleGroup">
</separator>
</menu>
<menu
label="SubSubMenu"
path="sampleMenu/subMenu/sampleGroup"
id="subSubMenu">
<separator
name="sampleGroup">
</separator>
</menu>
<action
label="Profile UI Job"
icon="icons/sample.gif"
class="org.eclipse.uijob.perf.actions.SampleAction"
tooltip="Profile UI Job"
menubarPath="sampleMenu/subMenu/subSubMenu/sampleGroup"
id="org.eclipse.uijob.perf.actions.SampleAction">
</action>
</actionSet>
</extension>

This produces:





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Subject	[pde-dev] Creating submenus for a pop-up menu

I want to create submenus for the following action as: 

New Pop-up Menu --> Action1 --> SubMenu Action1 
                           Action2 --> SubMenu Action2         

For action1  menubarPath is the Id of "New Pop-up Menu" and the seperator i.e newmenu.menu1/group1 
Similarly for action2. 

On the same analogy, I'm adding the id of Action1 to menubarPath of "SubMenu Action1" , so that a submenu  for action1 is created. 
Is this addition of menu/submenus correct?I'm not able to get the menu and sub-menus as I want it as mentioned above. 
Can someone give me a hint to solve the problem..? 
Here is the plug-in.xml file contents: 
<extension 
         point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus"> 
      <objectContribution 
            objectClass="org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile" 
            nameFilter="plugin.xml" 
            id="submenu.contribution1"> 
         <menu 
               label="New Pop-up Menu" 
               path="additions" 
               id="newmenu.menu1"> 
            <separator 
                  name="group1"> 
            </separator> 
            <separator name="group2"/> 
         </menu> 
         <action 
               label="Action2" 
               menubarPath="newmenu.menu1/group1" 
               id="menu.action2"/> 
         <action 
               label="Action1" 
               menubarPath="newmenu.menu1/group1" 
               enablesFor="1" 
               id="menu.action1"> 
         </action> 
         <action 
               label="Submenu Action1" 
               class="submenu.Action3" 
               menubarPath="menu.action1/group2" 
               id="submenu.action1"/> 
         <action 
               label="Submenu Action2" 
               class="submenu.Action4" 
               id="submenu.action2"/> 
      </objectContribution> 
   </extension> 

Rgds, 
Roopa