A pop-up menu is very similar to creating a toolbar or view menu; however, there are a few extra steps required to hook it up to the viewer and to ensure that the right pop-up menu is connected to the right part. As with the view menu, a tag is required; but instead of being a generic hard-coded value, the pop-up tag requires a tight binding with the pop-up menu.
Create a method called
createPopupMenuin theSampleViewclass. It will need to take an SWTControlparameter, which will be the one that is used to trigger the menu.Ensure that the
createPopupMenuis called from the end of thecreatePartControlmethod, passing in thecontrolfrom thevieweras the argument:createPopupMenu(viewer.getControl());
First, create a pop-up menu with a
MMenuFactory.INSTANCE.createPopupMenu()call. Assign it to a local variablemenu, so that it can be referred to throughout the method.Set the
elementIdof themenuto be that of thepart, usingmenu.setElementId(part.getElementId...