[Monodevelop-devel] Adding a context menu item in an Add-In for MonoDevelop 2.4.2

[Julian Adams]

Yup, that fixed it. Thanks. (with 2.4 as the version). I hadn't really
understood what the dependencies were for.

btw Is there a way of debugging that sort of thing? I never saw
anything in the messages window telling me that my path was incorrect.

Jools

On 24 March 2011 13:00, Mike Krüger <mkrueger at novell.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> The path  "/MonoDevelop/SourceEditor2/ContextMenu/Editor" is the correct one
> - you don't need to use  "/MonoDevelop/SourceEditor/ContextMenu/Editor".
>
> Did you add the "SourceEditor2" into the dependencies - something like :
>
> <Dependencies>
> <Addin id="SourceEditor2" version="2.6"/>
> </Dependencies>
>
> Regards
> Mike
>>
>> I'm writing an add-in for MonoDevelop, starting from
>> http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Articles/Creating_a_Simple_Add-in. I
>> have this working, and would like to add a context menu in the source
>> code and the xml editors. Unfortunately the page
>> http://monodevelop.com/Developers/Articles/The_Command_System has only
>> "TODO" under the context menu section.
>>
>> Browsing the latest source from Git I've tried all of the following,
>> but none of them work:
>>
>>     <Extension path = "/MonoDevelop/Ide/SourceEditor/ContextMenu/Editor">
>>         <CommandItem
>> id="MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter.DateInserterCommands.InsertDate"
>> />
>>     </Extension>
>>
>>     <Extension path = "/MonoDevelop/Ide/SourceEditor2/ContextMenu/Editor">
>>         <CommandItem
>> id="MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter.DateInserterCommands.InsertDate"
>> />
>>     </Extension>
>>
>>     <Extension path = "/MonoDevelop/SourceEditor/ContextMenu/Editor">
>>         <CommandItem
>> id="MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter.DateInserterCommands.InsertDate"
>> />
>>     </Extension>
>>
>>     <Extension path = "/MonoDevelop/SourceEditor2/ContextMenu/Editor">
>>         <CommandItem
>> id="MonoDevelop.Samples.DateInserter.DateInserterCommands.InsertDate"
>> />
>>     </Extension>
>>
>>
>> btw I'd be happy to update that page, if appropriate.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> Jools
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