Re: [platform-ui-dev] Actionbar contributor doesn't have access to keyb

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

RetargetActions are perfect most of
the time, for more reasons than just keybindings.  But some actions
might not be associated with the editor instance.  For example, a
global preference shared accross all instances of the same editor.  If
"Show Source of Selected Element Only" were a global toggle (I
wish!), it would probably not be a retarget action.

Kai-Uwe Maetzel <maetzel@xxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-ui-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 03/11/2003 10:58 AM Please respond to platform-ui-dev

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The way I found around that is to let the editor action
bar contributor place retarget actions into the tool/menu bar that are
bound by the actions of the active editor. This reduces the responsibility
of the editor action bar contributor from contributing the "real"
actions to defining the structure of the action contribution.

Kai


At 10:39 AM 3/11/2003 -0500, you wrote:

I noticed that an EditorPart can get to the keybinding
service via IWorkbenchPartSite.getKeybindingService().   But, an EditorActionBarContributor
cannot obtain the keybinding service.  Is this intentional?  How
is the contributor supposed to register an action that it places on the
menu?  Or, maybe it doesn't need to. 

Currently, I am not registering my action that the contributor places on
the menubar, but I am setting the definition ID.  The result is that
the accelerator is displayed for free, but the accelerator doesn't work.

Randy Hudson