[news.eclipse.platform] Re: popupMenus objectContribution

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Nouha Br wrote:
> This is a sample extract of my plugin.xml
>
> <menuContribution 
> locationURI="popup:org.eclipse.ui.popup.any?after=additions">
>     <command
>          commandId="com.test.plugin.MyCommandName"
>          label="PersonCommand">
>             <visibleWhen>
>                <and>
>                   <with
>                         variable="activePartId">
>                      <equals                        
> value="com.test.plugin.ui.view.MyView">
>                      </equals>
>                   </with>
>                   <instanceof
>                         value="com.test.plugin..sdk.Person">
>                   </instanceof></and></visibleWhen>
>      </command>
> </menuContribution>
>
>
> where com.test.plugin.ui.view.MyView is the id of the view where I want 
> my command to be shown and com.test.plugin..sdk.Person is the class of 
> the object (like object contribution).

The default variable and selection are collections (of sort).  Check out 
 the examples in Menu Contributions and Command Core Expressions.

PW

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