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title: IntelliJ Action System
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This tutorial is meant to give general information about the IntelliJ IDEA Action System and lead you through a series of steps
which show how to create, register, and customize custom actions and action groups.
Action system provides an option to handle certain events in a desired way. 
Action can either be simply a response to some state, or be bound to UI element and could be invoked on demand. 
These UI elements include main menu, context menus, and toolbars.


* [Working With Custom Actions](action_system/working_with_custom_actions.html)
* [Grouping Action](action_system/grouping_action.html)


[Plugin source code](https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-sdk/tree/master/code_samples/register_actions)

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