[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Property pages for my own classes.

[Ed Merks <merks@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Matt,

In EMF's org.eclipse.emf.ecore.presentation.EcoreActionBarContributor we do it like this:

  protected IAction showPropertiesViewAction =
    new Action(EcoreEditorPlugin.INSTANCE.getString("_UI_ShowPropertiesView_menu_item"))
    {
      public void run()
      {
        try
        {
          getPage().showView("org.eclipse.ui.views.PropertySheet");
        }
        catch (PartInitException exception)
        {
          EcoreEditorPlugin.INSTANCE.log(exception);
        }
      }
    };

  protected void addGlobalActions(IMenuManager menuManager)
  {
    menuManager.insertAfter("additions-end", new Separator("ui-actions"));
    menuManager.insertAfter("ui-actions", showPropertiesViewAction);

    refreshViewerAction.setEnabled(refreshViewerAction.isEnabled());       
    menuManager.insertAfter("ui-actions", refreshViewerAction);

    super.addGlobalActions(menuManager);
  }

Matt Dickie wrote:

Hi all,

I have a view which shows objects of my own classes from my model layer. I would like to add a 'properties' action on the context menu that shows the property pages I have declared using the org.eclipse.ui.propertyPages extension point. Do I have to implement this action myself? If not how do I get it to appear - my context menu is registered with the IViewSite and has the MB_EXTENSIONS groups.

Thanks in advance

Matt