[md] Explanation for DefaultActionGroup added http://bit.ly/1A7Nr5K

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Anna Bulenkova 2014-12-08 09:45:57 +01:00
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@ -102,7 +102,26 @@ If some part of the functionality requires to implement several actions or actio
they can be joined into groups. In this case the group will be available as a top-level menu item, action will be represented as drop-down menu items.
Grouping can be done by placing <group> attribute into
[plugin.xml] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/META-INF/plugin.xml)
file.
file. In most of the cases you simply need to leave "class" attribute of the <group> undefined; in this case an instance of
[DefaultActionGroup] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/platform-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/actionSystem/DefaultActionGroup.java)
will be created and filled with actions defined within it.
<group id="DummyDefaultActionGroup" text="Default action group">
<action class="org.jetbrains.plugins.sample.actions.GroupedToDefaultAction" id="PluginSample.GroupedToDefaultAction"/>
</group>
See
[GroupedToDefaultAction.java] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/sample/actions/GroupedToDefaultAction.java)
If set of actions, which need to be put into a group, is defined dynamically depending on the context,
a custom action group can be created by setting *class* attribute. The class itself, like
[DummyActionGroup] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/sample/DummyActionGroup.java)
in this example, should be derived from
[ActionGroup] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/editor-ui-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/actionSystem/ActionGroup.java)
and its
[getChildren()](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/sample/DummyActionGroup.java)
method should return an array of
[actions] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/sample/GroupedAction.java)
belonging to this group.
<!-- The <group> element defines an action group. <action>, <group> and <separator> elements defined within it are automatically included in the group.
The mandatory "id" attribute specifies an unique identifier for the action.
@ -126,17 +145,6 @@ file.
<add-to-group group-id="MainMenu" relative-to-action="HelpMenu" anchor="before"/>
</group>
Class
[DummyActionGroup] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/sample/DummyActionGroup.java)
should be
derived from [ActionGroup] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community/blob/master/platform/editor-ui-api/src/com/intellij/openapi/actionSystem/ActionGroup.java)
and its
[getChildren()](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/sample/DummyActionGroup.java)
method should return an
array of
[actions] (https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/blob/master/code_samples/plugin_sample/src/org/jetbrains/plugins/sample/GroupedAction.java)
belonging to this group.
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