org.openide.awt

Annotation Type ActionRegistration

@Retention(value=SOURCE)
 @Target(value={TYPE,FIELD,METHOD})
public @interface ActionRegistration

Registers an action under associated identifier specified by separate ActionID annotation on the same element. Here is few usage examples:

• always enabled action
• callback action
• context aware action

Since:

7.26

Required Element Summary

Required Elements

Modifier and Type	Required Element and Description
String	displayName Display name.

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element and Description
boolean	asynchronous Shall the action be performed outside of AWT thread.
ActionState	checkedOn Controls action's enable state.
ActionState	enabledOn Specifies a property that enables the action for context-sensitive actions.
String	iconBase Path to image representing the action's icon.
boolean	iconInMenu Shall the action's icon be visible in menu?
String	key Shall this action be associated with a particular key in an ActionMap? E.g.
boolean	lazy Whether a lazy factory registration from Actions should be used.
String	menuText Provides the JMenuItem text if one wants to use other than the name of the action returned by ActionRegistration.displayName().
String	popupText Provides the JMenuItem popup text if one wants to use other than the name of the action returned by ActionRegistration.displayName().
boolean	surviveFocusChange Shall the action work on last selection when it was enabled?

Element Detail

displayName

public abstract String displayName

Display name. Usually prefixed with '#' to reference value from a Bundle.properties file in the same package.

Returns:

display name for the action

menuText

public abstract String menuText

Provides the JMenuItem text if one wants to use other than the name of the action returned by ActionRegistration.displayName().

Returns:

display name for the action

Since:

7.35

See Also:

Actions.connect(javax.swing.JMenuItem, javax.swing.Action, boolean)

Default:

""

popupText

public abstract String popupText

Provides the JMenuItem popup text if one wants to use other than the name of the action returned by ActionRegistration.displayName().

Returns:

display name for the action in a popup menu

Since:

7.35

See Also:

Actions.connect(javax.swing.JMenuItem, javax.swing.Action, boolean)

Default:

""

iconBase

public abstract String iconBase

Path to image representing the action's icon.

Returns:

"org/myproject/mypkg/Icon.png"

Default:

""

iconInMenu

public abstract boolean iconInMenu

Shall the action's icon be visible in menu?

Returns:

true or false

Default:

true

key

public abstract String key

Shall this action be associated with a particular key in an ActionMap? E.g. behave like Actions.callback(java.lang.String, javax.swing.Action, boolean, java.lang.String, java.lang.String, boolean) one?

Returns:

the value of the key to seek in currently selected ActionMap

Default:

""

asynchronous

public abstract boolean asynchronous

Shall the action be performed outside of AWT thread.

Returns:

false, if the action shall run synchronously

Default:

false

surviveFocusChange

public abstract boolean surviveFocusChange

Shall the action work on last selection when it was enabled?

Default:

false

lazy

public abstract boolean lazy

Whether a lazy factory registration from Actions should be used.

Most actions can be registered using a lazy factory (see class Javadoc for list), which permits the application to avoid loading the action class unless and until it is actually run. Before then, queries on the name, icon, etc. are serviced using static metadata, which minimizes startup overhead.

In limited cases, using this sort of lazy delegate is impossible or undesirable: the action needs to export some special key from Action.getValue(java.lang.String); it presents multiple menu items according to dynamic conditions; or for UI reasons it is preferred to visually disable the action under certain conditions (rather than leaving it enabled and showing a message if selected under those conditions).

For these special cases, you may specify lazy=false to force the action registration to use the traditional direct registration of an instance of the action, without any lazy factory. That allows the action to supply arbitrary customized behavior even before it is ever run, at the expense of overhead when the registration is first encountered (such as when the main menu bar is populated, or a context menu of a certain kind is first shown).

It is an error to specify lazy=false on an element which is not assignable to Action (e.g. an ActionListener, or a String field); or which requires a context parameter in its constructor (or factory method).

For compatibility, registrations which do not explicitly specify this attribute but which are on elements assignable to any of the following types will be registered as if lazy=false, despite the default value of the attribute (but a warning will be issued and the attribute should be made explicit):

• Presenter.Menu
• Presenter.Toolbar
• Presenter.Popup
• ContextAwareAction
• DynamicMenuContent

Since:

7.41

Default:

true

enabledOn

public abstract ActionState enabledOn

Specifies a property that enables the action for context-sensitive actions. The property can be on the context object (implies single selection mode), or on another object type in the context Lookup. The default enables the action if the context object is present (with no additional constraints).

Specify the value if the action should be enabled based on certain property and its value. See ActionState for detailed explanation of the state evaluation and tracking.

Returns:

the specification of enabled state

Since:

7.71

Default:

@org.openide.awt.ActionState(type=java.lang.Void.class)

checkedOn

public abstract ActionState checkedOn

Controls action's enable state. If unspecified, the action will not represent the state value, and will be presented as normal item or button. If specified, the action will be presented as checkbox or toggle button. * Similar to #enableOn, type and its property can be used to determine whether the action is checked or unchecked. See ActionState for more details.

Returns:

specification of the checked state.

Since:

7.71

Default:

@org.openide.awt.ActionState(type=java.lang.Void.class)