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GauravEdekar
GauravEdekar

Reputation: 155

Extend an existing Context Menu inside Eclipse Outline View for Xtext

We have an eclipse plugin which has been created using Xtext. And now I want to add a context menu to an Element inside the Outline View inside Eclipse. I understand that I need to have a menuContribution which will invoke a Command. But what I dont understand is, do I have to create (define) a command in some way or the other. My plugin.xml contains an extension point for "org.eclipse.ui.menus".

Menu Contribution is something like this:

I find tutorials that talk about creating menu contributions, but there is nothing which will tie up my menuContribution to a command I want to define.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 265

Answers (1)

Arne Deutsch
Arne Deutsch

Reputation: 14769

Typically you will need three extensions:

  • org.eclipse.ui.command
  • org.eclipse.ui.handlers
  • org.eclipse.ui.menu

It requires some fidling to get them right. I suggest you look at some open source code and starts from there. Introduction article: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipseCommands/article.html

The locationUri of the context menu you like to contribute to should be popup:org.eclipse.xtext.ui.outline.OutlinePageContextMenu. Found here: https://github.com/eclipse/xtext-eclipse/blob/master/org.eclipse.xtext.ui/src/org/eclipse/xtext/ui/editor/outline/impl/OutlinePage.java

Upvotes: 0

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