[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: using commands/handlers in Common Naviga

["Francis Upton (News)" <francisu@xxxxxxxx>]

Unfortunately, the CNF still lives in action land, so you are not 
missing anything.  At some point we will get around to having it use the 
new command stuff.  I feel your pain (I have similar concerns in my RCP 
application), but for 3.4 at least that's the way it is.

Francis

Chris wrote:
> I've been working on integrating the Common Navigator Framework into a 
> fairly large-scale RCP app. I've been very pleased with the results for 
> the most part, but have been somewhat discouraged by the lack of 
> documentation on how I can use the platform command framework in 
> conjunction with CNF.
>
> The rest of my app uses commands/handlers, but from what I can tell I 
> can only use actions with CNF. So for example, to contribute menu items 
> to the CNF context menu, I would have to use deprecated 
> org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus and objectContribution extension points in my 
> other plugins (as opposed to using org.eclipse.ui.menus).
>
> I'm not big on the idea of having an app with mixed actions and 
> commands. Seems to make sense to use one or the other. What is the 
> "correct" way of doing this, if there is one? Have I missed any 
> documentation out there?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris


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*new* Common Navigator Framework section in:
   3.4RC4 Platform Plugin Developer Guide (Programmer's Guide)
http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/cnf.htm
http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/francis
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Common_Navigator_Framework_Use_Cases


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