[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Toolbar button with a dropdown menu

[Wayne Beaton <wayne.beaton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Vicente Alencar wrote:
> Hello Everyone!
>
> I spent the whole day trying to find out how to make an eclipse plugin 
> that adds a toolbar button that drops a menu when we click on it.
>
> Would someone here help me with that?
>
> Thank You!

This article is a little old, but it should point you in the right 
direction:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/article.php?file=Article-action-contribution/index.html

The keyword you're looking for is "pulldown".

There is an update to this article in development; see:

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=165753

Also see:

http://help.eclipse.org/help32/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench_basicext_actionSets.htm

HTH,

Wayne