Cannot add a launch shortcut (Eclipse Plug-in)

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  •  09-06-2019
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Question

I'm making a simple extra java app launcher for Eclipse 3.2 (JBuilder 2007-8) for internal use.

So I looked up all the documentations related, including this one The Launching Framework from eclipse.org and have managed to make everything else working with the exception of the launch shortcut.

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This is the part of my plugin.xml. 

   <extension
     point="org.eclipse.debug.ui.launchShortcuts">
  <shortcut
        category="mycompany.javalaunchext.launchConfig"
        class="mycompany.javalaunchext.LaunchShortcut"
        description="launchshortcutsdescription"
        icon="icons/k2mountain.png"
        id="mycompany.javalaunchext.launchShortcut"
        label="Java Application Ext."
        modes="run, debug">
     <perspective
           id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.JavaPerspective">
     </perspective>
     <perspective
           id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.JavaHierarchyPerspective">
     </perspective>
     <perspective
           id="org.eclipse.jdt.ui.JavaBrowsingPerspective">
     </perspective>
     <perspective
           id="org.eclipse.debug.ui.DebugPerspective">
     </perspective>
  </shortcut>

The configuration name in the category section is correct and the class in the class section, i believe, is correctly implemented. (basically copied from org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.launchConfigurations.JavaApplicationLaunchShortcut)

I'm really not sure if I'm supposed to write a follow-up here but let me clarify my question more. I've extended org.eclipse.jdt.debug.ui.launchConfigurations.JavaLaunchShortcut. Plus, I've added my own logger to constructors and methods, but the class seems like it's never even instantiating.

Was it helpful?

Solution

I had to add contextualLaunch under org.eclipse.debug.ui.launchShortcuts.

The old way seems like it's deprecated a long ago.

For other people who are working on the same subject, you might want to extend org.eclipse.ui.commands and bindings, too.

I cannot choose this answer but this is the answer that I (the questioner) was looking for.

OTHER TIPS

You class should implement ILaunchShortcut. Check out the Javadoc.

What exception are you getting? Check the error log.

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