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how to get a menupoint
Submitted by BennX on Saturday, 29 October, 2011 - 17:45
good evening community,
I am not sure if i am right in Plugin Development because i didnt write it as plugin!

i am acutally writing a small improvement for our University.(It already works but i want to make it better)

I just got a problem to get a menu entry.
okay here how it works.
I wrote a thread thats simply started in the mainmethod like every other thing.
At the momment it starts a JOptionPane where you need to put a int in to use the feature i wrote.

Now i just want a menu entry where i can klick to open my JOptionPane to use(to start the thread) the feature if i need it. It just dont look nice if it always pop up at the beginning. Maybe under Help or such.

I didnt find how to do it otherwise i wouldnt ask here in Forum.

Thanks alot for your help!

Best Regards
BennX
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properties
by Robert Schwenn on Sun, 30/10/2011 - 10:40
Hi,
menus are defined in properties. Take a look into "jedit.jar:\org\gjt\sp\jedit\jedit_gui.props", at the whole fold "Menu bar". Property "view.mbar" defines the main menu bar. For each menu item You find a property with same name to define the sub menu. If You can't find a property for an item, then this is finally the name of an *action* or macro to perform.

You can change this menu definition property by overriding it in Your personal ~/properties file or in a separate *.props file which You place into the properties folder of jedit program directory. Of course You can change jedit_gui.props itself.

Actions are defined in "jedit.jar:\org\gjt\sp\jedit\actions.xml". I guess that additional actions can be defined only in this file. Every plugin comes with it's own actions.xml.

BTW, since You don't want to write a plugin, maybe a macro does the trick too.

Also, these parts of User's Guide may be helpful:
Part IV. Writing Plugins
Part III. Writing Macros

Robert
 
Thank you so much. I didnt fi
by BennX on Sun, 30/10/2011 - 11:43
Thank you so much. I didnt find it myself. But now it works great and really looks nice.

Best Regards
Benjamin
 
Thanks alot Robert, let me s
by BennX on Sun, 30/10/2011 - 11:14
Thanks alot Robert,
let me see if i can handle it like that.
If i need some more Help ill replay again.

Best Regards
Benjamin
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