How to hide default menus in RCP?
eclipse, eclipse-plugin, rcp
Solution
You need activities. Example from my current project:
<extension
point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">
<activity
id="arm.activity.disabled"
name="%arm.activity.disabled.name">
<enabledWhen>
<with
variable="selection">
<count
value="-1">
</count>
</with>
</enabledWhen>
</activity>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="arm.activity.disabled"
pattern="org\.eclipse\.m2e\..*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="arm.activity.disabled"
pattern="org\.eclipse\.search\..*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="arm.activity.disabled"
pattern="org\.eclipse\.team\..*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="arm.activity.disabled"
pattern="org\.eclipse\.compare.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="arm.activity.disabled"
pattern="org\.eclipse\.help\.ui\.PrefPageHelp.*">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="arm.activity.disabled"
isEqualityPattern="true"
pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide/org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workspace">
</activityPatternBinding>
<activityPatternBinding
activityId="arm.activity.disabled"
isEqualityPattern="true"
pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide/org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Perspectives">
</activityPatternBinding>
</extension>
Problem
I am new in Eclipse RCP plug in development. I had written one plug-in with my own perspective and added perspective specific menus within it. My question is how to hide the default menus provided within Eclipse, like Edit, Navigated, Search, Project ? I tried with using '< extension point="org.eclipse.core.expressions.definitions" >' and putting my view specific condition, withing menu contribution's. Any help is appreciated. Best regards, Mandar Phatak.