[platform-debug-dev] context-sensitive launching

[John Cortell <john.cortell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I want to take advantage of context-sensitive launching in our 
product, but don't want to provide a launch shortcut. Looking at the 
platform code, it seems that's not possible. No doubt I'm overlooking 
something, but I don't see why the context sensitive launch logic 
absolutely requires a shortcut. Launch configurations can have an 
association with an IResource, and the ones created by our product do 
(they are associated with projects). Seems to me, given the currently 
selected IResource, the platform should be able to find the (first) 
launch configuration associated with it--without any involvement of a shortcut.

I imagine a context sensitive launch incorporating this logic:

for (each launch configuration)
{
 - is this launch configuration associated with the selected IResource
   - if yes, launch it
   - if no, is this launch configuration associated with the project 
the IResource belongs to
      - if yes, launch it
}

I suppose there is something I'm not considering. If a shortcut truly 
is necessary, I don't mind contributing a shortcut, but I don't want 
it accessible to the user. That is, I should be able to contribute 
the shortcut for the sake of the meta information that the 
context-sensitive launch apparently needs, but I don't want it 
appearing as an action the user can invoke. That, too, doesn't seem 
possible today.

John