[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: how to migrate plugins from IDE to RCP

[Jeroen Lankheet <yeronimuz@xxxxxxx>]

Jacek Pospychala wrote:
> Jeroen Lankheet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm still struggling with some lack of knowledge.
> > I need to run my plugins (I took the Logic Diagram GEF example) under an
> > RCP application. But I am missing a lot of menu's views etc.
> > How should I enable these 'standard' menu items. Or should I explicitly
> > add all items 'manually'?
> > Is there a resource spy for plugins? One that determines the used
> > resources of the IDE?
> >
> > JL
> For spying things like this I always use Plug-in Registry view.
> For example, if you'd like to find who is contributing "Switch 
> Workspace" option in File menu,
> type "Switch" in Plug-in Registry viewer's filter box and see the results.
>
> Somewhere there, you should see this:
>
>
>
> So now you know, that org.eclipse.ui.ide is contributing this command. 
> You can disable filter to see other properties of this contribution, like
> id = org.eclipse.ui.file.openWorkspace, description and categoryId.
> Actually most of standard menu options comes from org.eclipse.ui.ide and 
> are born to life  org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.WorkbenchActionBuildre.
Thanks Jacek,

That's indeed what I was looking for.
Forgive me my ignorance, but I still don't understand how to activate 
the 'eclipse' stuff, once I have found the originating plugin. Maybe 
your last sentence was scrambled? I managed to get an outline view by 
using layout.addView(id).

JL