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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

You're reading from  Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Aug 2016
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ISBN-13 9781783980697
Pages 458 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Author (1):
Alex Blewitt Alex Blewitt
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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide Second Edition
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Creating Your First Plug-in 2. Creating Views with SWT 3. Creating JFace Viewers 4. Interacting with the User 5. Working with Preferences 6. Working with Resources 7. Creating Eclipse 4 Applications 8. Migrating to Eclipse 4.x 9. Styling Eclipse 4 Applications 10. Creating Features, Update Sites, Applications, and Products 11. Automated Testing of Plug-ins 12. Automated Builds with Tycho 13. Contributing to Eclipse Using OSGi Services to Dynamically Wire Applications Pop Quiz Answers Index

Time for action – adding the pop-up


A pop-up menu is very similar to creating a toolbar or view menu; however, there are a few extra steps required to hook it up to the viewer and to ensure that the right pop-up menu is connected to the right part. As with the view menu, a tag is required; but instead of being a generic hard-coded value, the pop-up tag requires a tight binding with the pop-up menu.

  1. Create a method called createPopupMenu in the SampleView class. It will need to take an SWT Control parameter, which will be the one that is used to trigger the menu.

  2. Ensure that the createPopupMenu is called from the end of the createPartControl method, passing in the control from the viewer as the argument:

    createPopupMenu(viewer.getControl());
  3. First, create a pop-up menu with a MMenuFactory.INSTANCE.createPopupMenu() call. Assign it to a local variable menu, so that it can be referred to throughout the method.

  4. Set the elementId of the menu to be that of the part, using menu.setElementId(part.getElementId...

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