A specific creation wizard is available to create this
type of plug-in.
Procedure
- To open the creation wizard, select .
- The following two pages are standardly used to create Eclipse
projects.
Note: On the Content page,
in the Options pane, you must check This
plug-in will make contributions to the UI. Moreover, if
you must perform specific actions upon the plug-in loading, you can
also select Generate an activator.
- On the Templates page, select Create
a plug-in using one of the templates and RPP
Design Explorer menu wizard. Click Next.
- On the plug-in creation page, enter the following information:
- Name of the Java™ class in
which you will describe your menu.
- Identifier of the extension point.
- Entity types on which the menu is to be displayed. Enter them
as pacprogram, pacscreen,
or pacsegment for example. Separate them with
commas.
- Menu name.
Results
The plug-in in which you can describe your menu is now created
in Eclipse. You can see it in the
Project Explorer view
of the
Resource perspective.
The
plugin.xml file
contains the user menu extension point.
Figure 1. Menu extension
point <extension
point="com.ibm.pdp.maf.rpp.mafDesignExplorerMenuActionContributor">
<mafDesignExplorerMenuActionContributor
class="com.ibm.rpp.sample.menu.SimpleDesignExplorerMenu"
id="menuId">
entityTypes="pacprogram,pacmacro,dataelement"
</mafDesignExplorerMenuActionContributor>
</extension>
To describe your menu, open the plug-in and the Java class generated from the name
you specified in the creation wizard.