How to enable save action in Eclipse toolbar? - eclipse

I am working under Eclipse plug-in development. I have implemented two view parts to view and change some objects. Each view part implements ISaveablePart to save modified objects and enable save button on toolbar.
The problem is: when I select my objects in Project Explorer, Save button isn't enabled, only Save All is enabled.
So I'd like to know is there any ability to enable Save button in this case?

You must first implement ISaveablePart, as you have mentioned above.
You have to fire an event (see IWorkbenchPartConstants.PROP_DIRTY), which will in turn ask your editor whether it's dirty (ISaveablePart#isDirty()). If the answer is true, then the save button will be enabled.
See FormEditor#editorDirtyStateChanged() for an example.

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Override "Paste As" dialog

When I drag Class element onto my diagram there is a window fired "Paste Class1", where I can choose the drop type, such as "Link","Property","Instance (Object)" and so.
I need to change that behavior - when I drag from ProjectBrowser I need apply only drop type "Link" and hide any variants from end user. Is it possible to do that via addin or anything else ?
Sparx 13.5
No you can't change the behavior of that dialog.
What you can do in an add-in is overrule whatever the user chose after the fact, and make it into a link anyway. (e.g. deleting the instance from the model and set the elementID of the classifier in the DiagramObject instead)
There is also a checkbox option to only show this window when Ctrl-drag is used. That might help to avoid mishaps as well.

Function across multiple view controllers

I am trying to make a function so that I request a 'manager override' where it presents a screen for a manager to enter their password and press an approve button. How should I do this? Will it have to be in multiple functions? Is there a way that I can call one function and it present the information back? Would a completion work for what I need? I have no ideas where to start for this.
My set up is as follows:
A view controller asks for manager approval, then a screen slides up with text boxes and an approve button. I want the approve button to trigger authenticating and dismissing the screen
Assuming you don't want a Framework target (that sounds like overkill for what you want) simply mark the function as "public" and move it outside of any class. I just tried in a sample project and it works.
It looks important - remember to keep it in a file already in the project. (My sample project didn't work with menu option File|Add|New|File.)
Now, if you really want portability, check out how to create a Framework project.

Change menus and menu items programmatically in Eclipse E4

I am having trouble removing existing menus from the model, in a running app.
For example:
MMenu menu = modelService.findElements(app, "idMenuFoo", MMenu.class,
Collections.<String>emptyList(), EModelService.IN_MAIN_MENU).get(0);
menu.setLabel("X");
menu.setVisible(false);
menu.setToBeRendered(false);
After this code gets executed:
The label has been changed to 'X'
But the menu entry is still visible/rendered
If I start the app without clearPersistedState, then restart it, the menu has disappeared. This leads me to be believe the the visibility and rendering attributes were set in the first place, but not applied to the model (unlike the label attribute).
How can I programmatically trigger a main menu bar "refresh" after such changes?
As a Greg in the comment above posted, there is an open bug filed to address this issue. An easy to implement a workaround involves manually refreshing the underlying SWT menu. See https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=365724#c9 for details. In a gist:
// retrieve the main menu, containing the top-level menu element that needs to be refreshed
MMenu mainMenu = ...
// org.eclipse.e4.ui.workbench.renderers.swt.MenuManagerRenderer
MenuManagerRender renderer = (MenuManagerRenderer)mainMenu.getRenderer();
renderer.getManager(mainMenu).update(true);

ImgButton : How to tell SmartGWT to not concatene state on the name of file source?

private ImgButton button = new ImgButton();
...
button.setSrc("iconName.jpg");
GWT or SmartGWT, I cannot tell exactly, generate state word to concatene it on the name of file.
Example to clarify :
On focus, iconName.jpg become iconName_Focus.jpg
On mouse down click, iconName.jpg become iconName_Down.jpg
On over, iconName.jpg become iconName_Over.jpg
Because these images are custom images, I want to tell GWT to take a default image when I didn't provide the corresponding image.
For example, when over event is fire and iconName_Over.jpg does not exist then use iconName.jpg.
Use the setShow{State} or setShow{State}Icon methods accordingly. For example for disabling the mouse down state, use setShowDown(Boolean.FALSE). For not showing a different icon when the mouse goes down on the button, use the setShowDownIcon(Boolean.FALSE). The rest of the actions have accordingly named methods you can look up at the ImgButton's javadoc page.

Update Eclipse menu item enabled state

I created the menu item in the "File" menu as a command. For this command there is a handler implementing the IHandler interface. This handler contains the isEnabled method. I am trying to use this method to enable/disable my menu item, but that method is called only once when I click on the "File" menu. When clicked for the second, third etc. times, the isEnabled method is not called again even if I changed the state of page (open/close editors) before.
What should I do? Maybe this method is not intended for control menu items?
Are you subclassing org.eclipse.core.commands.AbstractHandler? You should use setBaseEnabled(boolean) to update the state of your handler (which would update your command).
It's only valid to change enabled state in your handler as long as you also fire the HandlerEvent. It's usually easier to call setBaseEnabled(boolean) which will fire the event for you.
If you're trying to enable/disable the menu, than you should use core expressions.
I've already explained how to do that in this answer:
Eclipse RCP menus & actions: Configure or code?
The part that you're interested in starts with:
For activating/deactivating a menu[...]
I hope this is what you're looking for.