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| <h3>Contributing new retargetable actions</h3> |
| <p>The workbench is not the only plug-in that can create retargetable |
| actions. Your plug-in can define its own retargetable action, so that |
| views and editors within your plug-in can share the same menu actions. |
| There are two ways to contribute retargetable actions from your plug-in:</p> |
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| <li>An <b>editor</b> can define a retargetable action for which the editor and |
| related views can hook handlers. The action is only available in the |
| menu bar when the editor is open. </li> |
| <li>An <b>action set</b> can define a retargetable action for which editors |
| and views can hook handlers. The action will be visible as long as the |
| action set is visible, but it will only be enabled if the active part has |
| hooked a handler for the action.</li> |
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| <p>This mechanism is useful for providing tight integration between editors and |
| related views. For example, a content outline view can implement a handler |
| for an action defined by its associated editor. </p> |
| <p>The <a href="../samples/org.eclipse.ui.examples.readmetool/doc-html/ui_readmetool_ex.html">readme |
| tool</a> example demonstrates both of these techniques.</p> |
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