Workbench Action connection with widgets and views

[avier5]

Hi All,

I have a view with a simple text field. I want that each action(write, delete etc.) in this text field will trigger the workbench actions in the main menu(actions like undo , redo and so on).
In other words how I can use the workbench actions (that I create from the ActionFactory) in my views and widgets

How can I achieve such ability?

Thanks,
Avier5

[Eric Clayberg]

I have a view with a simple text field. I want that each action(write, delete etc.) in this text field will trigger the workbench actions in the main menu(actions like undo , redo and so on).
In other words how I can use the workbench actions (that I create from the ActionFactory) in my views and widgets
How can I achieve such ability?

You need to hook various Eclipse global actions. Assuming that you have your own delete action named "deleteAction", you would hook it to the Eclipse Edit > Delete command like this...

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private void hookGlobalActions() {
    getViewSite().getActionBars().setGlobalActionHandler(
        IWorkbenchActionConstants.DELETE,
        deleteAction);
}

BTW, Eclipse plugin development questions like this are better directed to the Eclipse Platform (or RCP) newsgroup.

This is also discussed on pp314-315 of our book.