[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Refresh Coolbar after creating new AbstractC

[Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxx>]

kevin j miles wrote:
> once i stopped laughing i began to fret about my current approach... 
> i'll let you know what i find.

In 3.4 we keep a list of ManagerPopulationRecords, so when another ACF 
is added 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.menus.WorkbenchMenuService.addContributionFactory(AbstractContributionFactory) 
knows to "install" it immediately.

In 3.3 you would somehow have to take your ACF and call into 
org.eclipse.ui.internal.menus.WorkbenchMenuService.processAdditions(IServiceLocator, 
Expression, ContributionManager, AbstractContributionFactory, Set) to 
get it added in a "timely" manner, but that's a private method (the best 
you can do in 3.3 is via reflection).

The other (totally non-portable and wacky) suggestion would be to run 
some similar code from within that method, you need a ContributionRoot 
and then you could fill it in yourself (having already "illegally" 
obtained the CoolBarManager :-)

PW


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