There are two kind of actions that can be created inside Studio applications:

• Actions which have a global purpose beeing executed in the application context (see: StudioContext ).
• Actions which are executed over a view or viewpart controller (see: Creating views, Creating viewparts ).

For a sample on how to create a global context actions integrated into a custom ribbon group: Integrating actions

In order to create an action a third party developer will require the following steps:

• Create a class inherited based on the scope from:
  • AbstractAction if the action require to be available in a Studio global context and its execution is not specific to a view or viewpart but to the application.
  • AbstractViewControllerActionTController if the action require to be available in any context but it is specific to one of the view or viewpart controller.
• Decorate the newly created class using the ActionAttribute attribute to define the action.
• Decorate single or multiple times the newly created class using the ActionLayoutAttribute attribute to define the action layout settings. The location specified in the action layout settings can be either a custom ribbon group (see: Integrating ribbon groups) or one of the following default locations:
  • StudioDefaultRibbonTabsAddinsRibbonTabLocation
  • StudioDefaultRibbonTabsHelpRibbonTabLocation
  • StudioDefaultRibbonTabsViewRibbonTabLocation
  • TranslationStudioDefaultRibbonTabsEditorAdvancedRibbonTabLocation
  • TranslationStudioDefaultRibbonTabsEditorReviewRibbonTabLocation
  • TranslationStudioDefaultRibbonTabsHomeRibbonTabLocation
  • TranslationStudioDefaultContextMenusEditorDocumentContextMenuLocation
  • TranslationStudioDefaultContextMenusFilesContextMenuLocation
  • TranslationStudioDefaultContextMenusProjectsContextMenuLocation

For a sample on how to create actions see: Integrating actions

Note
On how to obtain an already created action check and see: GetActionTAction

The SDL Trados Studio Integration API provide support for third party developers to add keyboard shortcuts to the actions they implement.

In order to create a shortcut action a third party developer will require to decorate the action class with the ShortcutAttribute and specify the combination of keyboard keys on which the action should be triggered and executed.

You can see in the sample bellow how ALT+F8 is added as a shortcut key for the action.

[Action("MyMainIconAction", Icon = "MyAction_Icon")]
[ActionLayout(typeof(MySampleRibbonGroup), 10, DisplayType.Large)]
[Shortcut(Keys.Alt | Keys.F8)]
public class MyMainIconAction : AbstractAction
{
    protected override void Execute()
    {
        MessageBox.Show("My icon and shortcut key action sample.");
    }
}

Note
The shortcut keys that are in conflict with SDL shorcuts will have a lower priority and will be ignored.

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