Disable the Presentation of AnAction

Hello Dhwani,

I have a DefaultActionGroup to which I have added a bunch AnAction
instances. This DefaultActionGroup has been added to a toolbar.
Depending on certain conditions I need to enable/disable these
actions. I looked up in the Forum and found the following thread.

http://intellij.net/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=559794&#559794

But using the AnActionEvent instance I can only get the Presentation
of the associated UI component on which the event occured. How can I
enable/disable other toolbar buttons that I need to modify?

In IntelliJ IDEA, you do not disable or enable actions explicitly from other
places of the code. Instead, you override AnAction.update(), check the conditions
which determine whether the action should be enabled, and enable or disable
the presentation of that action.

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Dmitry Jemerov
Development Lead
JetBrains, Inc.
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Hi Dmitry,

Thanks for confirming that. Thats how I had attempted to do it. I have implemented it as follows.

group.add(new AnAction("Action1", "Action1 description", null) {

public void actionPerformed(AnActionEvent e) {
// TODO
}

public void update(AnActionEvent e) {
e.getPresentation().setEnabled(Action1EnabledFlag);
}
});

The Action1EnabledFlag is a boolean whose value can be set anywhere in the code.

Thanks
dk

Thanks!