Popup menu on custom view in Eclipse Plug-In (Kepler)

Question

Is there a way to provide a static popup menu for a custom view in Eclipse Kepler? Creating a dynamic one is easy, but I would like to be able to define the commands in the

Answer 1

In your view part set up the context menu like this:

MenuManager contextMenu = new MenuManager();
contextMenu.setRemoveAllWhenShown(true);

Control control = viewer.getControl();
Menu menu = contextMenu.createContextMenu(control);
control.setMenu(menu);

getSite().registerContextMenu(contextMenu, viewer);

The registerContextMenu call makes the menu available to the org.eclipse.ui.menus extension point so you can define menu items like this:

  
      
         ... you menu items ...