Re: [pde-dev] Creating submenus for a pop-up menu

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Thanks Jim,

"Jim D'Anjou" <danjou@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: pde-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 03/10/2005 02:43 AM Please respond to pde-dev

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Roopa, this is a common source of confusion. Here is an
example that works (thanks to John Arthorne, co-author of Official Eclipse
3.0 FAQs www.eclipsefaq.org).

All menu "path" attributes must be of the form "menuPath/group",
where "menuPath" can be any number of nested menus. So the path
"sampleMenu/subMenu/subSubMenu/sampleGroup"
will put an action in a doubly-nested sub menu. Below is a complete example:

<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.actionSets">
<actionSet
label="Profile UI
Job"
visible="true"
id="org.eclipse.uijob.perf.actionSet">
<menu
label="Profile UI
Job"
id="sampleMenu">
<separator
name="sampleGroup">
</separator>
</menu>
<menu
label="SubMenu1"
path="sampleMenu/sampleGroup"
id="subMenu">
<separator
name="sampleGroup">
</separator>
</menu>
<menu
label="SubSubMenu"
path="sampleMenu/subMenu/sampleGroup"
id="subSubMenu">
<separator
name="sampleGroup">
</separator>
</menu>
<action
label="Profile UI
Job"
icon="icons/sample.gif"
class="org.eclipse.uijob.perf.actions.SampleAction"
tooltip="Profile
UI Job"
menubarPath="sampleMenu/subMenu/subSubMenu/sampleGroup"
id="org.eclipse.uijob.perf.actions.SampleAction">
</action>
</actionSet>
</extension>

This produces:

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Subject	[pde-dev] Creating submenus for a pop-up menu

I want to create submenus for the following action as:

New Pop-up Menu --> Action1 --> SubMenu Action1
Action2 --> SubMenu Action2 

For action1 menubarPath
is the Id of "New Pop-up Menu" and the seperator i.e newmenu.menu1/group1
Similarly for action2. 

On the same analogy, I'm adding the id of Action1 to menubarPath of "SubMenu
Action1" , so that a submenu for action1 is created.
Is this addition of menu/submenus correct?I'm not able to get the menu
and sub-menus as I want it as mentioned above. 
Can someone give me a hint to solve the problem..?
Here is the plug-in.xml file contents: 
<extension 
point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus">
<objectContribution 
objectClass="org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile"
nameFilter="plugin.xml"
id="submenu.contribution1">
<menu 
label="New Pop-up
Menu" 
path="additions"
id="newmenu.menu1">
<separator 
name="group1">
</separator> 
<separator name="group2"/>
</menu> 
<action 
label="Action2"
menubarPath="newmenu.menu1/group1"
id="menu.action2"/>
<action 
label="Action1"
menubarPath="newmenu.menu1/group1"
enablesFor="1"
id="menu.action1">
</action> 
<action 
label="Submenu
Action1" 
class="submenu.Action3"
menubarPath="menu.action1/group2"
id="submenu.action1"/>
<action 
label="Submenu
Action2" 
class="submenu.Action4"
id="submenu.action2"/>
</objectContribution> 
</extension> 

Rgds, 
Roopa