Can Tools modify the editor popup menu?

datguy

Can Tools modify the editor popup menu?

in Library and Tool Development • 4 months ago

I'm looking at the Editor class, and I see the TextAreaPopup inner class, but I don't see any way to get a reference to it. I was hoping to add menu items from my tool's init() method. Is that possible?

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datguy

Re: Can Tools modify the editor popup menu?

4 months ago

I found a way to do it...

public void init(Editor theEditor) {
JMenuItem item = new JMenuItem("Do something...");
item.addActionListener(new ActionListener() {
public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
System.out.println("doing something...");
}
});
JPopupMenu popup = theEditor.getTextArea().getRightClickPopup();
popup.addSeparator();
popup.add(item);
}

This is probably not supported, because the comment for getTextArea recommends that you don't use it. However, it is public, and the method above does what I need it to do.

However, I discovered something else. The Tool-Basics page says that the init method is called when the Editor is first opened, but that is not happening with my tool. When I open a new editor and right-click to open the popup menu, my new menu item is not included. After running my tool from the Tools menu, the menu item is added.