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Bug 2573

Summary:	[Contributions] ordering: Ordering of viewerContributions (1GGAOZF)
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Jared Burns <jared_burns>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	mistria, simon_arsenault
Version:	2.0	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Jared Burns

2001-10-10 22:39:02 EDT

We (MIN) are adding viewerContributions for our popup menus in xml as follows, but the items are 
being displayed in reverse order in the UI. Reccomend that these items should either appear 
in their intuitive implicit order (the order they are specified in the xml file) or an explicit ordering 
mechanism (numbering) should be added.

<extension
	point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus">
.
.
.
	<viewerContribution
		id="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.BreakpointHitCountActions"
		targetID="org.eclipse.debug.ui.BreakpointView">
		<action
			id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.BreakpointHitCount"
			label="&amp;Hit Count"
			tooltip="Set breakpoint hit count"
			menubarPath="emptyBreakpointGroup"
			class="org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.BreakpointHitCountAction"
			enablesFor="1">
		</action>
	</viewerContribution>	
	<viewerContribution
		id="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ExceptionCaughtToggleActions"
		targetID="org.eclipse.debug.ui.BreakpointView">
		<action
			id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.CaughtToggle"
			label="&amp;Caught"
			tooltip="Suspend when caught"
			menubarPath="emptyBreakpointGroup"
			state="true"
			class="org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.ExceptionCaughtToggleAction"
			enablesFor="+">
		</action>
	</viewerContribution>
	<viewerContribution
		id="org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ExceptionUncaughtToggleActions"
		targetID="org.eclipse.debug.ui.BreakpointView">
		<action
			id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.actions.UncaughtToggle"
			label="&amp;Uncaught"
			tooltip="Suspend when uncaught"
			menubarPath="emptyBreakpointGroup"
			state="true"
			class="org.eclipse.jdt.internal.debug.ui.ExceptionUncaughtToggleAction"
			enablesFor="+">
		</action>
	</viewerContribution>
.
.
.
</extension>

NOTES:

Comment 1 DJ Houghton

2001-10-29 19:01:32 EST

PRODUCT VERSION:
0.9

Comment 2 Simon Arsenault

2002-09-03 16:33:35 EDT

This is a well know problem since 1.0 (actions show up in the ui in the reverse 
order that they are listed in the XML file). We can't change this as it would 
break every plugin out there.

Adding a new attribute is something we've thought about...just not high 
priority given the rest of the workload.

Comment 3 Simon Arsenault

2002-09-03 16:43:19 EDT

*** Bug 5049 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Michael Van Meekeren

2006-04-21 13:56:34 EDT

Moving Dougs bugs

Comment 5 Paul Webster

2007-04-05 19:00:50 EDT

Assigning to component owner
PW

Comment 6 Mickael Istria

2016-11-10 10:39:44 EST

As the org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus extension point is depracated (replaced by org.eclipse.ui.commands and org.eclipse.ui.menus, supporting ordering), adding the specific feature is not going to be considered.