Re: [platform-ui-dev] Activities and Menus in Eclipse 3

[Kim Horne <Kim_Horne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hrm... that's not right.  :)  I'll
reopen Bug 47098 and check it out.  Thanks!

Ksenya Lossiev <KSENYA@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Kim, Tod 
Thanks a lot! 
Regarding 1, automatical hiding does not seem to happen to me. For example,
I filter everything from 'Search' menu by the following:
        <activityPatternBinding
            activityId="my.activities.ide"
            pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.OpenFileSearchPage">
      </activityPatternBinding>
      <activityPatternBinding
            activityId="my.activities.ide"
            pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.OpenSearchDialog">
      </activityPatternBinding>
      <activityPatternBinding
            activityId="my.activities.ide"
            pattern="org.eclipse.help.ide/org.eclipse.help.ide.OpenHelpSearchPage">
      </activityPatternBinding>
The 'Search' menu still appears in the menubar, but contains no items.
The same happens for 'Run' menu, when the following filter is used:
        <activityPatternBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.externalTools"
            pattern="org.eclipse.ant.*">
      </activityPatternBinding>
      <activityPatternBinding
            activityId="org.eclipse.externalTools"
            pattern="org.eclipse.ui.externaltools.*">
      </activityPatternBinding>

Regards 

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1) You can't remove the menu from the menu bar explicitly.  However,
it will be hidden automatically if it only contains only filtered or non-visible
items.  Your only solution is to put pattern bindings on each of the
contributed actions.  Hiding a menu outright seems problematic - if
it has actions that are either on by default (no bindings) or on due to
activity enablement, why should they be hidden from the user?  I'm
not convinced this is behaviour that the activity system should support,
although please feel free to log a bug and cast your vote.

2) This problem was addressed in Bug 44455 (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=44455)
which is fixed and will be included in M7 (and is already in recent integration
builds).

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Hello, 

My apologies for posting to the dev list, but this seems to be the only
place where I can get help with Activities-related issues. I tried working
with activities in M6, the following are menu-related questions:

1. It seems that there is no way to hide a menu from the menubar, using
activities. For example, I cannot remove "Search" from the menubar
with the following patterns: 
    <activityPatternBinding
          activityId="my.activities.ide"
          pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.menu">
    </activityPatternBinding>
    <activityPatternBinding
          activityId="my.activities.ide"
          pattern="org.eclipse.help.ide/org.eclipse.search.menu">
    </activityPatternBinding>
    <activityPatternBinding
          activityId="my.activities.ide"
          pattern="org.eclipse.jdt.ui/org.eclipse.search.menu">
    </activityPatternBinding>
While I do succeed to remove certain menu items from within the "Search"
menu, for example by the following: 
      <activityPatternBinding 
          activityId="my.activities.ide"
          pattern="org.eclipse.search/org.eclipse.search.OpenFileSearchPage">
    </activityPatternBinding>
Is there any way to hide the whole menu, using activities (I'd like to
get rid of "Project" menu)? 

2. When menu item is included into some disabled activity (like OpenFileSearchPage
above),  the item doesn't appear at all. When I enable the activity,
the item is still hidden. Only after workbench restart with the activity
enabled, the menu item gets back. Is that the way things are supposed to
be? The same also occurs in the opposite direction: I open workbench with
enabled activity -> menu item appears. I uncheck the activity (via Window->Activity
Configuration) - the menu item isn't hidden until workbench restart.

Thanks a lot for any help!