How to trigger a plugin by right clicking listed items

Mark Miller

• February 25, 2016 05:48

I am trying write a plugin that is triggered by right clicking listed items and select the option that I will be adding. Is there any documentation on doing that? How should I go about doing this? 
Thank you, 
Mark

 

 

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  Richard Moir

  • February 29, 2016 00:36

  http://assets.geneious.com/developer/geneious/javadoc/latest/overview-summary.html#faqAddMenuBar

  Normally you would create a DocumentOperation and specify setInPopupMenu(true) in getActionOptions().

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  Mark Miller

  • February 29, 2016 21:15

  I am already using DocumentOperation for a menu bar triggered GUI, is it possible to have both?

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  Richard Moir

  • February 29, 2016 21:25

  Yes, you can set both on the same action options and the operation will appear in both places:

  actionOptions.setInPopupMenu(true).setMainMenuLocation(GeneiousActionOptions.MainMenu.Tools);

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  Mark Miller

  • March 01, 2016 05:11

  I meant that I wanted to have different GUIs for different actions, not triggering the same GUI with different actions.

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  Mark Miller

  • March 01, 2016 07:38

  Actually, to be more specific, how can I add a tab to the "Tree..." option, which is shown after right clicking an alignment?

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  Richard Moir

  • March 01, 2016 20:21

  Ah ok, in that case you should return two operations from GeneiousPlugin.getDocumentOperations().

  To have an operation appear under Tree you have to use the 4 parameter version of the GeneiousActionOptions constructor in your getActionOptions method. You should then pass Category.TreeBuilding as the forth parameter.

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  Mark Miller

  • March 03, 2016 09:35

  Thank you very much, it works perfectly. On a side note, i noticed that Geneious has updated to version 9.1.2, but when I run my plugin on eclipse, it launches version 9.0.4, where should I modify so it would be tested on the latest version?

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  Richard Moir

  • March 03, 2016 23:01

  The dev kit has a copy of Geneious bundled inside it so to upgrade you have to download the latest dev kit and move your code over.

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  Mark Miller

  • March 04, 2016 23:21

  Perfect, thank you.

   

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