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Contributing command to popup submenu [message #332159]

Tue, 07 October 2008 13:45

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: bsv.datatel.com

I have a view. This view has a popup menu registered in the default
fashion, e.g. the popup menu ID is the same as the view ID.

This popup menu has a submenu, contributed as a "menu" under an
"objectContribution" on a legacy "popupMenus" extension point. The
"menu" has a unique ID.

There are a couple items on that submenu which are also contributed via
the popupMenus extension point.

Here's the problem. I have a command that I want to contribute to that
same submenu. I'm trying to use the new "menuContribution" element on
the "org.eclipse.ui.menus" extension point. Specifying the locationURI
to the submenu is where I get stuck. I thought it would be:

locationURI="popup:submenuID"

But it doesn't show on the submenu. If I use the view ID, it shows on
the submenu's parent (the main popup menu for the view), as such:

locationURI="popup:viewID"

This proves that the appropriate handler is active and the command is
enabled.

Help with getting it show up on the submenu?

Thanks
Ben

Re: Contributing command to popup submenu [message #332172 is a reply to message #332159]

Wed, 08 October 2008 08:23

Eclipse User

The menu contributions (org.eclipse.ui.menus) can't see action
contributions, as they're applied first. Action contributions can see
menu contributions however.

You could simply add the same submenu with the same ID (and whatever
necessary visibleWhen clause to make it like an objectContribution)
using org.eclipse.ui.menus, and then it would be there for your command
as well as the popupMenus.

PW

--
Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Re: Contributing command to popup submenu [message #332177 is a reply to message #332172]

Wed, 08 October 2008 10:30

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: bsv.datatel.com

Thanks. That did the trick.

Paul Webster wrote:
> The menu contributions (org.eclipse.ui.menus) can't see action
> contributions, as they're applied first. Action contributions can see
> menu contributions however.
>
> You could simply add the same submenu with the same ID (and whatever
> necessary visibleWhen clause to make it like an objectContribution)
> using org.eclipse.ui.menus, and then it would be there for your command
> as well as the popupMenus.
>
> PW
>

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