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→Add Menu to RCP Application
* Right click on the ui.commands extension you just added and select New -> Command.
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* Enter the id, name and defaultHandler as shown. i.e. id is cs.ecl.rcp.simple.book.Exit, name is Exit and defaultHandler is cs.ecl.rcp.simple.book.ExitHandler.
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* Click on the hyperlink "defaultHandler" to create the class which should extend "org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractHandler". Remove any interfaces. You should have something like this.
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* Click Finish. You should now have this.
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* Modify the class so it now looks like this.
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* Ok, we've created a command, so now we need a menu in which to add it.
* Go back to the plugin.xml view and click the Add button. Then select the "org.eclipse.ui.menus" extension and click Finish.
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* Now, right click on the menus extension and select New -> MenuContribution. Then add the location URI as "menu:org.eclipse.ui.main.menu". You'll get something like this.
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* Right click on menuContribution and select New -> Menu. Add a menu with the label "File" and the id "fileMenu".
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* Right click on File(menu) and select New -> command. Then set the commandid, label and tooltip to "cs.ecl.rcp.simple.book.Exit", "Exit" and "Exits the Application".
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* Save your work and then go back to the Overview tab and click on "Launch an Eclipse application". You should get this.
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* Congratulations. You're Done!
