adding a checkbox in toolbar of eclipse view.

[Bharath Raja]

I've my own view and I can added a action item in toolbar of that view. Now I wanna to add one check box in that view, based on that check-box action only, my forthcoming steps have to be achieved. Is that possible to add a swt check box in tool bar. I've added a action using below code.

 createPartControl(Composite parent){
   createAction();
   createToolBar();
 }

 private void createAction(){
   ImageDescriptor imageDesc=ImageDescriptor.createFromImage(new Image(null,Myclass.getResourceAsStream("/icons/sort.gif")));
    Action actionSort=new Action("sort",imageDesc){
       public void run(){
          //logic goes here
        }
     };
 } 

 private void createToolBar(){
   IToolBarManager toolbarMGR = getViewSite().getActionBars().getToolBarManager();
   toolbarMGR.add(actionSort);
 }

Because of IToolBarManager's add method only accept Action/IAction, the following code will give me the error.

 private void createToolBar(){
    IToolBarManager toolbarMGR = getViewSite().getActionBars().getToolBarManager();
    toolbarMGR.add(actionSort);
    //below gives me an error.
    toolbarMGR.add(new Button(SWT.CHECK)); 
  }

any idea to add check-box in toolbar...

[Bharath Raja]

Finally I've added the toggle button in view's tool bar through the following code.

   
  Action actionSort,actionFilter; //instance variables

 createPartControl(Composite parent){  
    createAction();  
    createToolBar();  
  }  
   
  private void createAction(){  
    ImageDescriptor imageDesc=ImageDescriptor.createFromImage(new  Image(null,Myclass.getResourceAsStream("/icons/sort.gif"))); 
    imageDesc=ImageDescriptor.createFromImage(new  Image(null,Myclass.getResourceAsStream("/icons/filter.gif"))); 
      actionSort=new Action("sort",imageDesc){  
      //below give me the toggle button.
      actionFilter=new RetargetAction("Toggle","Filter",IAction.AS_CHECK_BOX);
        public void run(){  
           //logic goes here  
         }  
      };  
  }   
   
  private void createToolBar(){  
    IToolBarManager toolbarMGR = getViewSite().getActionBars().getToolBarManager();  
    toolbarMGR.add(actionSort);  
    toolbarMGR.add(actionFilter);
  }