on Apr 2nd, 2009Eclipse Menu Contribution URIs
Since Eclipse 3.3, placing contributions in a menu (via the org.eclipse.ui.menus extension point) has been a bit challenging given the new locationURI attribute:
While at EclipseCon 2009, I had time to sit down with Paul Webster and hack the menu spy functionality of the Plug-in Spy to spit out location URIs. For example, if you selected the JDT open project wizard, you would get this popup:
Another example is if you selected the Import wizard from the File menu, you’d get this popup:
That URI should be good enough to use for your personal menu contributions. Look for this functionality to appear in Eclipse 3.5 M7 and if you have anymore ideas, please file a bug.
In the end, I hope people find this useful as I continue my quest of introspecting the workbench and making life easier for RCP developers.
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- Tip: The Configure Menu
- Toggling a Command contribution
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- I Spy Menus
- Tip: Generate NLS Fragments in Eclipse
What a pain to find the menus URI !
Even you needed Paul Webster to achieve that
thanks for this useful feature.
Nicolas
It would be even better with a “locationURI” custom attribute, right?
Great work anyway!
This is neat. The best way to learn plug-in development for me is still “Monkey see, Monkey do”, and this helps a lot to that end.