Package org.eclipse.ui.actions

Class ActionDelegate

java.lang.Object

org.eclipse.ui.actions.ActionDelegate

All Implemented Interfaces:

IActionDelegate, IActionDelegate2

Direct Known Subclasses:

AbstractRulerActionDelegate

public abstract class ActionDelegate
extends Object
implements IActionDelegate2

Abstract base implementation of IActionDelegate and IActionDelegate2 for a client delegate action.

Subclasses should reimplement runWithEvent or run methods to do the action's work, and may reimplement selectionChanged to react to selection changes in the workbench.

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor	Description
ActionDelegate()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
void	dispose()	The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate2 method does nothing.
void	init(IAction action)	The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate2 method does nothing.
void	run(IAction action)	The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate method does nothing.
void	runWithEvent(IAction action, Event event)	The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate2 method redirects to the run method.
void	selectionChanged(IAction action, ISelection selection)	The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate method does nothing.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ActionDelegate

public ActionDelegate()

Method Detail

run

public void run(IAction action)

The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate method does nothing. Subclasses may reimplement.

Note: This method is not called directly by the proxy action. Only by the default implementation of runWithEvent of this abstract class.

Specified by:

run in interface IActionDelegate

Parameters:

action - the action proxy that handles the presentation portion of the action

selectionChanged

public void selectionChanged(IAction action,
                             ISelection selection)

The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate method does nothing. Subclasses may reimplement.

Specified by:

selectionChanged in interface IActionDelegate

Parameters:

action - the action proxy that handles presentation portion of the action

selection - the current selection, or null if there is no selection.

init

public void init(IAction action)

The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate2 method does nothing. Subclasses may reimplement.

Specified by:

init in interface IActionDelegate2

Parameters:

action - the proxy action that handles the presentation portion of the action.

dispose

public void dispose()

The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate2 method does nothing. Subclasses may reimplement.

Specified by:

dispose in interface IActionDelegate2

runWithEvent

public void runWithEvent(IAction action,
                         Event event)

The ActionDelegate implementation of this IActionDelegate2 method redirects to the run method. Subclasses may reimplement.

Specified by:

runWithEvent in interface IActionDelegate2

Parameters:

action - the action proxy that handles the presentation portion of the action

event - the SWT event which triggered this action being run