25787 – 'Run' item on File Context Menu

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Bug 25787 - 'Run' item on File Context Menu

Summary: 'Run' item on File Context Menu

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 18338

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	Debug (show other bugs)
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	All All

Importance:	P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Platform-Debug-Inbox
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Reported:	2002-11-06 13:19 EST by Fran Tonello
Modified:	2002-11-11 14:17 EST (History)
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Description Fran Tonello

2002-11-06 13:19:17 EST

It would be very helpful to have a 'Run' item on the file context menu.  This 
would have a sub-menu which would include all the items currently on the 
existing 'Run' dropdown.  It would also be nice if Run menu items were smarter 
about when they're enabled.  For example, Run wouldn't be enabled at all if the 
file doesn't have a main() method and isn't a JUnit Test.

Comment 1 Fran Tonello

2002-11-06 13:35:13 EST

In addition to adding 'Run' to the file context menu in the package explorer, 
it would be very helpful to add it to the file tab context menu as well.

Comment 2 Dani Megert

2002-11-07 12:09:24 EST

This is contributed by debug.

Comment 3 Darin Wright

2002-11-11 14:17:06 EST

The difficulty here is that an action in a menu must determine its enablement 
state in "zero" time. To determine if applicable, the action would have to 
parse a file, and perhaps create a type hierarchy. Worse, the "run" action is 
not java specific - it pertains to all types of launch configuraitons. Thus, we 
removed this menu action in 2.0. 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18338 ***