Context menu for output panel

[taras1]

Is it possible to have a custom context menu items for an output panel.
It is not a problem for an ordinary view but I see no way of achieving it for the output panel.
Thank you

[kingkeith]

yes, this is possible:

import sublime
import sublime_plugin


class ExampleOutputPanelCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        self.view.insert(edit, 0, "Hello, World!")
    
    def is_visible(self):
        panel_name = self.view.window().active_panel()
        if panel_name and panel_name.startswith('output.'):
            panel = self.view.window().find_output_panel(panel_name[len('output.'):])
            return panel is not None and panel.id() == self.view.id()
        else:
            return False

and then in Context.sublime-menu:

[
    { "command": "example_output_panel", "caption": "Example output panel command" },
]

[taras1]

Thank you, but unfortunately this approach doesn’t work. You code assumes that is_visible is called for all views including output panels. But it’s not the case. At least with ST3. is_visible is never called for output panel.

Even simplifying your code like this doesn’t help:

class ExampleOutputPanelCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def is_visible(self):
        print('is_visible is called')
        return True

"Example output panel command" indeed displayed in the ordinary view. But for the output panel the editor always displays the built in context menu:

[kingkeith]

works fine for me:

[taras1]

Sorry, didn’t get the notification about your response.

Yes you are right. You are using built-in panel output.exec and indeed this panel does work with the custom context menu.

However if one creates a custom output panel then ST3 does’t process context menu at all. The code below shows that is_visible is only called for output.exec but not for any other panel (e.g. console, output.my_panel).

I was hoping that I have missed something but now it looks like a defect or an intended behavior:

class ExampleOutputPanelCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        window = sublime.active_window()
        panel = window.create_output_panel('my_panel')
        panel.run_command("append", {"characters": "Hello World"})
        window.run_command('show_panel', {'panel':'output.my_panel'})
            
    def is_visible(self):
        print(self.view.window().active_panel())
        return True

[kingkeith]

ah I see - apparently you need to assign a syntax first, then the normal context menu items will appear:

class ExampleOutputPanelCommand(sublime_plugin.TextCommand):
    def run(self, edit):
        window = sublime.active_window()
        panel = window.create_output_panel('my_panel')
        panel.run_command("append", {"characters": "Hello World"})
        panel.assign_syntax('Packages/Text/Plain text.tmLanguage')
        window.run_command('show_panel', {'panel':'output.my_panel'})
            
    def is_visible(self):
        print(self.view.window().active_panel())
        return True

[taras1]

Excellen! Txs.
Who would expect that? But… may be it is a common ST way that I just didn’t know about.
Much appreciated…

.

[randy3k]

panel.settings().set("is_widget", False)

also works.