Question

I would like to add a gap between two buttons on an Eclipse toolbar. Both these buttons are defined in the plugin.xml for the plugin. I have tried specifying a separator, as per the following XML snippet, but nothing shows up.

<menuContribution locationURI="toolbar:com.bogus.viewId.MyView">
    <command
          commandId="com.bogus.filters.menu"
          icon="icons/filter.gif"
          label="Filter Menu"
          style="pulldown"
          tooltip="Filter Menu" />
 </menuContribution>
 <menuContribution locationURI="toolbar:com.bogus.viewId.MyView">
     <separator name="com.bogus.separator1" />
 </menuContribution>
 <menuContribution locationURI="toolbar:com.bogus.viewId.MyView">
    <command
          commandId="com.bogus.commands.dangerous"
          icon="icons/bomb.png"
          label="BOOM!"
          tooltip="BOOM!" />
 </menuContribution>

As a side note, does anyone know where I can find a decent schema definition for the plugin.xml file? This is the best I could find so far, but its poor.

http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/plugin_manifest.html

Answer 1

So it turns out the separator element can have a ‘visible’ attribute and this must be set to true.

<separator name="com.bogus.separator1" visible="true" />

I found this out by random googling. Still couldn’t find a decent schema definition for the plugin.xml.