That is exactly what I ended up doing. I realized very quickly that my
DummyOpenAction wasn't going to work out the first time I tried to launch
the editor.
Thanks for the followup!
Cheers,
Mike
On 5/30/07 2:56 AM, "Hussein Shafie" <hussein at xmlmind.com> wrote:
> In fact, a few hours after sending my answer, I wondered if my answer
> was really correct.
>
> An action called "openAction" implementing the OpenDocumentAction
> interface is really needed if you want to be able to open documents in XXE.
>
> This action is used not only in the "File|Open" menu item (that you have
> removed) but also when the document to be opened is specified as a
> command line argument (may be you did that in Java Web Start's .jnlp file).
>
> Therefore a wiser answer would be:
>
> [1] Keep:
>
> <action name="openAction" label="_Open..."
> icon="icons/openAction.gif"
> accelerator="mod O">
> <class
> implementsCommand="XXE.open"
>> com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.kit.part.OpenAction</class>
> </action>
>
> That is, do not define a *dummy* "openAction". Keep the original
> com.xmlmind.xmleditapp.kit.part.OpenAction even if you don't use it in
> "File|Open".
>
> [2] Remove:
>
> <action name="openAction" />
>
> from:
>
> <menu name="fileMenu" label="_File"
> helpId="fileMenu">
>
>
> [3] Declare:
>
> <action name="openAction" />
>
> in the <hidden> element.
>
> That is:
> ---
> ...
> <!-- Layout ================================================== -->
>
> <layout>
> ...
> <hidden>
> ...
> <action name="openAction" />
> </hidden>
> </layout>
> </gui>
> ---
>
>
>
> Mike Santy wrote:
>> Works great. Thanks Hussein!
>>
>>
>> On 5/29/07 8:46 AM, "Hussein Shafie" <hussein at xmlmind.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Santy, Michael wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I'm building a customized XXE that will be packaged as a webstart app.
>>>> When XXE is launched via Webstart, the JNLP descriptor specifies which
>>>> file to open. Because of this, I want to remove the "Open" menu item
>>>> from the file menu. When I do so, I get the error:
>>>>
>>>> 'command triggered by "drop" is unknown'
>>>>
>>>> This appears me to be that dragging and dropping a file into XXE
>>>> attempts to open the file with "openAction". Is there any way to
>>>> disable both methods ("File | Open" & DnD) of opening a file?
>>>>
>>> --> The simplest is to add this to your .xxe_gui file:
>>>
>>> <action name="openAction">
>>> <class>com.dynetics.xxe.DummyOpenAction</class>
>>> </action>
>>>
>>> where com.dynetics.xxe.DummyOpenAction is an action which does nothing
>>> at all. Something like:
>>>
>>> public class DummyOpenAction extends AppAction
>>> implements OpenDocumentAction {
>>> public void doIt() {}
>>> public void updateEnabled() {}
>>>
>>> public boolean openDocument(URL url) {
>>> return false;
>>> }
>>> }
>>>
>>> See
>>> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmleditapp/kit
>>> /A
>>> ppAction.html
>>>
>>> Note that this action implements the OpenDocumentAction interface.
>>> See
>>> http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/api/com/xmlmind/xmleditapp/kit
>>> /O
>>> penDocumentAction.html
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --> At the end of your .xxe_gui file, in the <hidden> element, do not
>>> forget to add a reference to the dummy action aclled "openAction":
>>>
>>> ---
>>> ...
>>> <!-- Layout ================================================== -->
>>>
>>> <layout>
>>> ...
>>> <hidden>
>>> ...
>>> <action name="openAction" />
>>> </hidden>
>>> </layout>
>>> </gui>
>>> ---
>>>
>>> See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/gui/hidden.html
>
