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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition
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Eclipse Plug-in Development Beginner's Guide - Second Edition

by Alex Blewitt
August 2016
Beginner to intermediate
458 pages
10h 56m
English
Packt Publishing
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Chapter 4 – Interacting with the User

Understanding menus

1. A command can be associated with a handler to provide a menu item. Handlers are indirection mechanisms that allow the same menu (example Copy) to take on different commands based on which context they are in. It is also possible to have a default command id associated with a menu to avoid this indirection.

2. The M1 key is an alias for Cmd on macOS, and for Ctrl on other platforms. When defining standard commands like copy (M1+C) it has the expected behaviour on both platforms (Cmd + C for macOS and Ctrl + C for others).

3. Keystrokes are bound to commands via a binding, which lists the key(s) necessary to invoke and the associated command/handler.

4. A menu's locationURI is where it will ...

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