[news.eclipse.modeling.gmf] Re: ContributionItemService problem

[Axel Guckelsberger <info@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hao,

I am facing exactly the same situation: I want to add a new action to
menubar and toolbar, but defined within an external plugin.
I also wonder at which point the visual aspects are defined (i.e. the
toolbar icon).
Please let us know if you cope with this problem.


Hao Zhang schrieb:
> Hi Cherie,
> My current situation is, I can contribute items from generated
> xxx.diagram plugin, as logic and taipan examples did, but I can't
> contribute any item in an outer plugin project, say xxx.diagram.custom
> which I created by myself and depends xxx.diagram project. And I found
> no example for this situation, yet I do need this because my actions has
> been defined in the xxx.diagram.custom project and I don't want to
> modify much codes in xxx.diagram project.
> 
> The other fact is if I implement IContributionItemProvider directly
> rather than inherit AbstractContributionItemProvider, the
> contributeToActionBars() method can get called when editor opens, so I
> guess likely there is some logic in AbstractContributionItemProvider not
> suitable for contributionItemProvider defined in outer plugin.. I'm
> trying to locate..
> 
> Cherie Revells wrote:
> 
>> Hao,
> 
>> Did you get this working yet?
> 
>> Regards,
>> Cherie
> 
>> Hao Zhang wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I want to add an editor action to my gmf editor and I found
>>> contributionItemProviders extension point can be used for this
>>> purpose. However I tried to mimic logic example without success, the
>>> "CustomContributionItemProvider" class's createTool() method was
>>> never get called and of course no editor action showed up.
>>> I listed the plugin.xml fragment below, anyone can give some suggestion?
>>>
>>>   <extension
>>>         id="contribution1"
>>>         name="contribution1"
>>>        
> point="org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.common.ui.services.action.contributionItemProviders">
> 
>>>
>>>      <contributionItemProvider
>>>            class="com.my.CustomContributionItemProvider">
>>>         <Priority
>>>               name="Low">
>>>         </Priority>
>>>         <partContribution
>>>              
>>> class="com.ibm.crl.bo.rule.diagram.part.RuleDiagramEditor">
>>>            <partAction
>>>                  id="exampleAction"
>>>                  menubarPath="/file/print"
>>>                  toolbarPath="/">
>>>            </partAction>
>>>         </partContribution>
>>>      </contributionItemProvider>
>>>   </extension>
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Hao
>>>
> 
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