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

[Axel Guckelsberger <info@xxxxxxxx>]

Hao,

I solved it by overriding the ActionBarAdvisor XPand template.


Hao Zhang schrieb:
> Axel,
> 
> Cherie helped me out, the key is to add
> 
> checkPluginLoaded="false"
> 
> in my contribution item provider extension, hope this also helps for you.
> 
> Regards,
> Hao
> 
> "Axel Guckelsberger" <info@xxxxxxxx> 
> ??????:fc86tl$auq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> 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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