Re: [udig-devel] menubuilder and actions

[Jesse Eichar <jeichar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Richard just added this extension point I beleive.  Richard Ideas?

Jesse

On Apr 19, 2007, at 5:01 AM, Andrea Antonello wrote:

> I am trying to create an Action to be added to a menu created through
> the menubuilder extention.
>
> Mainly I want to create a button that launches a dialog, then the user
> chooses some layer and the action does something.
>
> That said, I first tried to create an ActionTool from the udig
> extention, which is rather easy and seemed to fit my needs.
>
> However when I started udig, i got a nice exception:
> java.lang.NullPointerException
> 	at
> net.refractions.udig.project.ui.internal.tool.display.ToolManager.setA 
> ctiveTool(ToolManager.java:508)
> 	at
> net.refractions.udig.project.ui.internal.tool.display.ToolManager.setC 
> urrentEditor(ToolManager.java:407)
> 	at
> [ and so on ]
>
> which nicely made appear my tool in the toolbar, but broke every other
> button on the bar, i.e. only my button populated the toolbar. Rather
> aggressive... :)
>
> Since I couldn't figure out why activeModalToolProxy was null at the
> point all this occured, I decided to step over to the menuBuilder and
> create a "normal" Action.
>
> Now I notice that the menubuilder misses the
> protected void makeActions( IWorkbenchWindow window )
> method, which is mandatory to activate and register the actions to the
> workbench.
> Which is the proper way to add my Action, that extends Action and
> implements IAction?
>
> Ciao
> Andrea
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