BooleanActionState --> Actions, ActionState

[John Kostaras]

Actions
<http://bits.netbeans.org/10.0/javadoc/org-openide-awt/org/openide/awt/Actions.html>and
ActionState
<http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc//org-openide-awt/org/openide/awt/ActionState.html>
annotation are replacements to the deprecated BooleanActionState
<https://bits.netbeans.org/10.0/javadoc/org-openide-util-ui/org/openide/util/actions/BooleanStateAction.html>
which
was not very elegant to work with (e.g. an example
<https://jnkjava.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/recipe-15-how-to-add-a-toggle-action/>how
to use it).

However, ActionState annotation is only applicable to *context* actions to
define its state.

Actions.CheckboxMenuItem
<http://bits.netbeans.org/10.0/javadoc/org-openide-awt/org/openide/awt/Actions.CheckboxMenuItem.html>
and Actions.Checkbox are static; how can they be used with a normal Action?

Use case: one wants to add a toggle button on the toolbar or a check menu
item (or two radio menu items) on a menu in a NB RCP application that when
s/he clicks it does something (e.g. sorts an outlineview by one or another
field or filter the outline view etc.) but *not* a context action.

So I created an action using the NB wizard, I thought I would extend
Actions.CheckboxMenuItem which causes a number of problems because it
requires 2 args contructor while ActionRegistration requires only 1 arg
contructor

@ActionID(
   category = "Bugtracking",
   id = "todo.actions.SomeBooleanAction"
)
@ActionRegistration(
   iconBase = "todo/actions/mixte_plot14.png",
   displayName = "#CTL_SomeBooleanAction"
)
@ActionReferences({
   @ActionReference(path = "Menu/File", position = 0)
   ,
  @ActionReference(path = "Toolbars/File", position = 0)
})
@Messages("CTL_SomeBooleanAction=Some Action")
public final class SomeBooleanAction extends Actions.CheckboxMenuItem
implements ActionListener {
   public SomeBooleanAction(BooleanStateAction aAction, boolean
useMnemonic) {
      super(aAction, useMnemonic);
   }
   public SomeBooleanAction(BooleanStateAction aAction) {
      super(aAction, false);
   }
   @Override
   public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e) {
      // TODO implement action body
   }

So, is there a way to have a non context Boolean state action in the
non-deprecated API (extending JToggleButton doesn't work)?

Thanks.

John.