I have created an eclipse plugin project. I want this plugin to be available as a popup. Therefore I have created an extension point with "org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus" (I know it is deprecated now, ours is an old project.)
I want this popup option to appear only at the file level with certain extension (say xml). Currently, it is appearing anywhere on right click.
I have looked around the internet and got to know that I can add a "visibility" tag that can set rules where this popup should be visible. However, I do not know the syntax for that.
Can someone please help me out? How to set the visibility of the popup menu so that it is visible only when I right click ON the filename with extension xml?
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?eclipse version="3.2"?>
<plugin>
<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.popupMenus">
<objectContribution
adaptable="true"
objectClass="org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile"
nameFilter="*.*"
id="org.eclipse.lyo.tools.codegenerator.ui.popupMenus.contribution.IFile">
<menu id="org.eclipse.acceleo.module.menu" label="Acceleo Model Code Generator" path="additionsAcceleo">
<groupMarker name="acceleo"/>
</menu>
<action
class="org.eclipse.lyo.tools.codegenerator.ui.popupMenus.AcceleoGenerateCodegeneratorAction"
enablesFor="+"
id="org.eclipse.lyo.tools.codegenerator.ui.popupMenus.AcceleoGenerateCodegeneratorAction"
icon="icons/default.gif"
label="Generate Java Code from Model"
menubarPath="org.eclipse.acceleo.module.menu/acceleo"/>
<visibility>
//what should come here?
</visibility>
</objectContribution>
</extension>
</plugin>
Regards, Yash
visibility
can only be a child of objectContribution
not action.
In any case you can use the namefilter
attribute to restrict the file name matching. You would only use visiblity
to do more complex checks.
For example this is one of the JDT items:
<objectContribution
adaptable="true"
objectClass="org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile"
nameFilter="*.xml"
id="org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.javadocexport.JavadocWizard">
<visibility>
<objectState name="contentTypeId" value="org.eclipse.ant.core.antBuildFile"/>
</visibility>
In this
adaptable="true"
objectClass="org.eclipse.core.resources.IFile"
restricts the actions to a workspace file
nameFilter="*.xml"
restricts the actions to files ending in .xml
<visibility>
<objectState name="contentTypeId" value="org.eclipse.ant.core.antBuildFile"/>
</visibility>
further restricts the actions to files with a 'content type' of 'Ant build file'
To match multiple name patterns remove the nameFilter
and use a visibility
like:
<visibility>
<or>
<objectState name="name" value="*.xml"/>
<objectState name="name" value="*.java"/>
</or>
</visibility>