Sometimes, you want to have programmatic access to an existing action or active settable in one of the available action bars. A use case for this would be to trigger the action through your own code.

Because all actions and active settables are registered with the TLcyActionBarManager, you can retrieve it from there.

The following example shows how to get a reference to the File→ Exit action:

Program: Obtaining a reference to the File→ Exit action 
    TLcyActionBarManager actionBarManager = lucy.getUserInterfaceManager().getActionBarManager();
    String actionID = "TLcyMain.exitAction";
    String actionBarName = "menuBar";
    // Typical contexts are null for global (=application wide) action bars,
    // and a map component for action bars associated with a map
    Object actionBarContext = null;

    ILcdAction exitAction =
        TLcyActionBarUtil.findAction(actionID,
                                     actionBarName,
                                     actionBarContext,
                                     actionBarManager);

The same approach can be used to retrieve an ILcyActiveSettable. You just need to call TLcyActionBarUtil.findActiveSettable instead of findAction.

See How to find the IDs of the available actions, tool bars, menu bars and pop-up menus for more information on retrieving the IDs of the action or active settable and the action bar.