Description Eric DeBolle 2006-03-04 01:06:30 EST

I found that on Eclipse 3.1.1 and 3.2M5a popupMenus do not show menus created via the popupMenus extension via an objectContribution unless a menu action was first placed in the menu manager via code. I did not test this on any other OS.


If I create a popupMenu in a View like this:

MenuManager contextMenuMgr = new MenuManager("#PopupMenu");
Action action = new Action() { public void run() { ; } };
action.setText("Why does this have to be here to see other menus?");
// contextMenuMgr.add(action);
contextMenuMgr.add(
   new GroupMarker(IWorkbenchActionConstants.MB_ADDITIONS));
Menu menu = contextMenuMgr.createContextMenu(
   this.treeViewer.getControl());
this.treeViewer.getControl().setMenu(menu);
this.getSite().registerContextMenu(contextMenuMgr, this.treeViewer);


And have plugin.xml like this:
   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus">
      <objectContribution
            id="com.xyz.C1"
            objectClass="java.lang.String">
         <menu
               id="com.xyz.xyzMenu"
               label="Menu"
               path="additions">
            <separator name="group1"/>
         </menu>
         <action
               class="com.xyz.action.NewAction"
               id="com.xyz.actions.menuAction"
               label="Action in Menu"
               menubarPath="com.xyz.xyzMenu/group1"/>
         <action
               class="com.xyz.action.NewAction"
               id="com.xyz.actions.additionAction"
               label="Action in Additions"
               menubarPath="additions"/>
      </objectContribution>
   </extension>


I will not see the menu lableled 'Menu' and thus be missing the action labeled 'Action in Menu'. But I will see the action labeled 'Action in Additions'.

However if I uncomment the line in the above code
  contextMenuMgr.add(action);
I will see the menu, it's action and the other action.