Question

I’m developing a SWT/JFace application using the libraries from Eclipse 3.4.1. I encounter the following problem on Windows (Vista 32bit) and Ubuntu 8.10 32bit:

I create a menu bar in the createMenuManager method of the JFace ApplicationWindow. I add MenuManagers for file, edit and help.

I then add an ExitAction to the file MenuManager like so:

filemenu.add(new ExitAction(this)); 

The ExitAction is defined this way:

public class ExitAction extends Action {   final ApplicationWindow window;    public ExitAction(ApplicationWindow w) {      this.window = w;     setText('E&xit');     setToolTipText('Exit the application');     setAccelerator(SWT.MOD1 + 'Q');       } } 

Now when my application starts I want be able to press ‘CTRL+Q’ to quit the application. This does however not work. Only AFTER I click on ‘File’ in the menu bar and THEN clicking ‘CTRL+Q’ the application will quit.

I’ve tried this with different accelerators- same behavior.

It does work however if I create a ‘MenuItem’ instead of an ‘Action’ to contribute to the menu bar.

Is this a SWT bug or do I miss something?

Torsten.

Answer 1

Update: There is a duplicate bug of mine which also contains a workaround. The bug url is: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=243758

Basically the workaround is to call create() on the ApplicationWindow and then getMenuBarManager().updateAll(true); which will force all menu items to get initialized.

Of course you have to call the above methods after you created the menu items.