Question

I want to create a simple eclipse plugin, which does: When you right click a java project, it will show a popup menu which has a item has label “N java files found in this project”, where “N” is the file count.

I have an idea that I can update the label in “selectionChanged”:

public class CountAction implements IObjectActionDelegate {
    public void selectionChanged(IAction action, ISelection selection) {
        action.setText(countJavaFiles());
    }
}

But it doesn’t work if I don’t click that menu item, since the CountAction has not been loaded, that selectionChanged won’t be invoked when you right-click on the project.

I have spent a lot of time on this, but not solved. Please help me.

Answer 1

At last, I found a very easy way to implement this:

I don’t need to change my code(the sample code in question), but I need to add a small startup class:

import org.eclipse.ui.IStartup;

public class MyStartUp implements IStartup {

    @Override
    public void earlyStartup() {
        // Initial the action
        new CountAction();
    }
}

And add following to plugin.xml:

<extension
     point="org.eclipse.ui.startup">
  <startup
        class="myplugin.MyStartUp">
  </startup>

This MyStartUp will load an instance of that action at startup, then selectionChanged will be invoked each time when I right-click the projects or files.