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 standard pages used for the
creation of 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 'RPPz
Design Explorer menu wizard'. Click Next.
- On the plug-in creation page, enter the:
- 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, pacsegment...
Separate them with commas.
- Menu name.
Results
The plug-in in which you can describe your menu has been created
in Eclipse. You can see it in the
Package Explorer view
of the
Plug-in development 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.