[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Adding a context sensitive menu to the edit

[Daniel Megert <daniel.megert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Erik Wikström wrote:

> I'm working on a plugin performing some analysis of code (using 
> ASTNodes) and have managed to add context-menus to the 
> package-explorer which works just fine. However to perform some of the 
> analysis I want to let the user select a specific piece of code an 
> perform some action on it.
> My problem is twofold: how to add a popup-menu to the code-editor

Use the "org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus" extension point with 
"#CompilationUnitEditorContext" as target id for the viewer contribution.

> and how to trace whatever the user clicked on to the abstract 
> representation of the code (like a ASTNode or IJavaElement).

There's no such high-level event (unless you want to use internal code). 
You have to add a post selection listener and get the Java element from 
the text selection.

Dani

> Does anyone have experience with this kind of functionality?
>
> --
> Erik Wikström