All,

I am creating a palette less eclipse plugin where am adding figures to the custom editor through the contextual menu, but am not finding a way to do it. Can anyone please guide me as to how to go about adding figures to editor dynamically through context menu i.e. adding actions/commands.

Since Eclipse GEF plugin development finds so less examples to look at, I am adding my solution so others find it useful. This code helps to render a node to the editor.

Source code for Action class to render figures to the editor:

         public class AddNodeAction extends EditorPartAction
        {
            public static final String ADD_NODE = "ADDNODE";


     public AddNodeAction(IEditorPart editor) {
  super(editor);
            setText("Add a Node");
            setId(ADD_NODE);     // Important to set ID
 }

 public void run()
 {
  <ParentModelClass> parent=  (<ParentModelClass>)getEditorPart().getAdapter(<ParentModelClass>.class);

  if (parent== null)
   return;
  CommandStack command = (CommandStack)getEditorPart().getAdapter(CommandStack.class);

  if (command != null)
  {
   CompoundCommand totalCmd = new CompoundCommand();
   <ChildModelToRenderFigureCommand>cmd = new <ChildModelToRenderFigureCommand>(parent);
   cmd.setParent(parent);
   <ChildModelClass> newNode = new <ChildModelClass>();
   cmd.setNode(newNode);
   cmd.setLocation(getLocation()); // Any location you wish to set to
   totalCmd.add(cmd);
   command.execute(totalCmd);
  }
 }

 @Override
 protected boolean calculateEnabled() 
 {
  return true;
 }
}