Orion/Documentation/Developer Guide/Plugging into the navigator

Overview of contributing services to the Navigator

The Navigator page provides a view for users to browse and manipulate files in their workspace. The Navigator defines some services to allow plug-ins to contribute commands to this view.

orion.navigate.command

The orion.navigate.command service is used to contribute links to the drop-down menu next to each file and folder. When the service is executed, the currently selected item in the Navigator is passed to the service's run method. The return value of this method is a URL string of the destination page for that command.

Here is a sample plug-in that contributes a link to a Google search for the selected file's name:

 var provider = new eclipse.PluginProvider({postInstallUrl:"/plugin/list.html"});
 provider.registerServiceProvider("orion.navigate.command", {
   run : function(item) {
     return "http://www.google.com/#q=" + item.Name;
   }
 }, {
   image: "http://www.google.com/favicon.ico",
   name: "Google Search",
   id: "sample.commands.sample4",
   forceSingleItem: true,
   href: true,
   tooltip: "Link to google search for this file name"
 });
 provider.connect();