I've been trying to figure out for a while now how to call an Eclipse menu item from within a plug-in that I'm developing. Say, for the sake of this posting, I want to call the eclipse "Format" menu item in the Right Click Menu to format a source, how would I go about doing this by calling that item (i.e. not just mimicking that menu item's effect, actually calling it)?
I'm not looking for how to format code, just simply the idea of calling a menu item.
I was leaning towards the APIs info on IWorkbench, Shell, ToolBar, ToolItem, etc., but I don't really know. I haven't been able to find anything on this topic in the APIs or anywhere else online. Is there a better approach to doing this rather than programmatically?
Eclipse JDT - http://help.eclipse.org/indigo/index.jsp?nav=%2F3
EDIT:
String commandId = "org.eclipse.jdt.ui.edit.text.java.format";
IHandlerService handlerService = (IHandlerService)(IHandlerService ) PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getService(IHandlerService.class);
handlerService.executeCommand(commandId, null);
Simple as that. The hardest part is finding the commandId, which can be easily searched for, as rlegendi mentioned. This is exactly what I wanted. It accesses that plugin via ID, then executes it. Simple and effective. Thanks everyone!
I'm not sure but probably what you want to read about is the Command/Delegate framework.
BTW if you install the Eclipse Platform SDK plugin (available by default), you can actually take a look on the source code of any plugin that is the part of your current Eclipse product (try Ctrl+Shift+T and typing ISourceViewer for instance, there you find the FORMAT it, for which you can do a search with Ctrl+Shift+G), and you can import any of those plugin projects to your own workspace to examine.