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Martin Cowie
Martin Cowie

Reputation: 2601

SWT Text widget: how to insert own MenuItems into the default context menu?

The default context menu for the org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Text class is quite a rich thing, packed with features that the user has come to depend on ...

Default text context menu, Mac edition

However, as soon as I assign my own context menu with Control.setMenu() all that richness goes away. Is there a means of inserting my own MenuItem object into this system-created menu .. can I have my cake and eat it?

Your clues are always most welcome.

M.

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1302

Answers (1)

Tonny Madsen
Tonny Madsen

Reputation: 12718

You cannot access the native menu from SWT. It is there, if there are no other menus set for the control. As you noticed, as soon as you set your own menu for the control, this new menu will completely replace the native menu.

As far as I can see, the behavior is common to all platforms.

Upvotes: 2

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