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Scout Eclipse extends Menu

I have one Core project and some other project that extends core. I know how to extend outline and how to add pages to extended outlines, but my problems are menus.

I would like to extend menu on extended project.

I find some example on web and I think that I understand, but this is not working for me.

What I have is :

<extension
     name=""
     point="org.eclipse.scout.rt.extension.client.desktopExtensions">
  <desktopExtension
        class="com.sixt.leasing.pd.scout.client.ui.desktop.DesktopExtension"
        active="true">
  </desktopExtension>
</extension>
<extension
     point="org.eclipse.scout.rt.extension.client.menus">
  <menuContribution
        active="true"
        class="com.sixt.leasing.pd.scout.client.menu.JobRunnerMenu"
        order="22">
     <desktop
           class="com.sixt.leasing.core.scout.client.ui.desktop.Desktop">
     </desktop>
  </menuContribution>
</extension>

inside plugin.xml

and my JobRunnerMenu look like :

public class JobRunnerMenu extends AbstractExtensibleMenu {

  @Override
  protected String getConfiguredText() {

    return TEXTS.get("Job");
  }

  @Override
  protected void execAction() throws ProcessingException {

    // TODO  Auto-generated method stub.
    super.execAction();
  }

  @Override
  protected void execToggleAction(final boolean selected) throws ProcessingException {

    // TODO  Auto-generated method stub.
    super.execToggleAction(selected);
  }
}

What am I missing ? Why this don't work?

Solution

  • Related forum thread: Multi Modul - Menu Extension

    I just tested this pattern and it works as expected.

    Here is the content of my plugin.xml (in the client extension):

    <extension
    point="org.eclipse.scout.rt.extension.client.menus">
 <menuContribution
       active="true"
       class="myapp.extension.client.menu.MyMenu"
       order="22">
    <desktop
          class="myapp.client.ui.desktop.Desktop">
    </desktop>
 </menuContribution>
</extension>

    Because the “menuContribution” defines a “desktop” as container, the menu you will add is contributed to the Desktop. Usually those menus are top-level menus and contain child menus.

    public class MyMenu extends AbstractExtensibleMenu {

  @Override
  protected String getConfiguredText() {
    return "My Menu";
  }

  public class MessageBoxTestMenu extends AbstractExtensibleMenu {

    @Override
    protected String getConfiguredText() {
      return "Test MessageBox";
    }

    @Override
    protected void execAction() throws ProcessingException {
      MessageBox.showOkMessage(null, "This is a test", null);
    }
  }
}

    The result:

    Sceenshot

    • Are the absolute class names in your XML correct?
    • Is your extension correctly started?