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Binding label from command addition [message #325676]

Mon, 25 February 2008 16:38

Ben Brown

Messages: 3
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

In switching over some menus to commands I came across the following
problem

I have a popup menu contribution that I've added through the
org.eclipse.ui.menus extension point, to which I have attached a command.
Adding this command allowed me to declare icons and a label for the
command on the menu. It also picked up at runtime that the command had an
associated binding so it added that to the menu item as well.

Picking up the bindings is certainly a great feature but the problem I'm
having is I don't like the label Eclipse decided to use for that binding.

In my case I'm running on Windows Vista on a US - English locale, the
binding is to 'DEL' which is then displayed as 'Delete' on the menu. Is
there a way to change this display for the binding? There doesn't appear
to be anything on the bindings extension point to support an
internationalized label.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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Re: Binding label from command addition [message #325681 is a reply to message #325676]

Mon, 25 February 2008 16:54

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

Ben,

My keyboard calls the key Delete in one place and "Del" in another (as
with Insert and Ins). I believe all these will appear in a .properties
file somewhere and would be translated if you had the translation
fragments installed (which aren't available for Eclipse 3.3). Generally
translation is done by using %<key> in the plugin.xml, specifying
Bundle-Localization: plugin in the MANIFEST.MF, and the defining that
<key> in plugin.properties.

Ben Brown wrote:
> In switching over some menus to commands I came across the following
> problem
>
> I have a popup menu contribution that I've added through the
> org.eclipse.ui.menus extension point, to which I have attached a
> command. Adding this command allowed me to declare icons and a label
> for the command on the menu. It also picked up at runtime that the
> command had an associated binding so it added that to the menu item as
> well.
> Picking up the bindings is certainly a great feature but the problem
> I'm having is I don't like the label Eclipse decided to use for that
> binding.
>
> In my case I'm running on Windows Vista on a US - English locale, the
> binding is to 'DEL' which is then displayed as 'Delete' on the menu.
> Is there a way to change this display for the binding? There doesn't
> appear to be anything on the bindings extension point to support an
> internationalized label.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks!
>

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Re: Binding label from command addition [message #325693 is a reply to message #325681]

Mon, 25 February 2008 17:19

Ben Brown

Messages: 3
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Yeah, thats exactly what I'm looking for for the ui.bindings extension
point. However, a label isn't defined for bindings in the schema.

I'm currently using the method you specified for internationalizing my
labels for the command additions to the menus, it's just those pesky
bindings that are still eluding me.

It's also quite possible, like you said, that the internationalization is
already defined for the DEL sequence somewhere down in the platform code
(like it does for M1 translating to Ctrl on Windows). In which case I'd
probably have to bite the bullet and stick with 'Delete', or log a bug I
guess.

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