My colleagues and I are building a new RCP application and trying to find our footing in RCP. My coworker managed to get the Eclipse Help framework working pretty quickly - but he used the old style Actions and ActionBarAdvisor.makeActions() to do it. All of the RCP Menu creation tutorials I ve read (the ones that were written post Eclipse 3.3 anyway) advocate depreciating Actions and switching over completely to Commands. So I m trying to do this. However, I cannot get the help Commands to work - not without using the help actions.
Specifically, I m attempting to figure out how to add the default Eclipse help menu commands org.eclipse.ui.help.helpContents and org.eclipse.ui.help.helpSearch to my help menu. I ve created the menu contribution, and added the commands. But they remain greyed out. I can t find any mention of anything else I have to do to hook them up to the help framework my coworker had working before using actions. If I add the actions for them and register them in make Action, they still work. But I m trying to do this without Actions. How is this done? What am I not doing?