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How to sort the preferences pages ? [message #332893]

Wed, 12 November 2008 19:34

Eclipse User

Hi
I've created a few pages preferences using the plugin
org.eclipse.ui.preferences. But the problem is I want the General
preference page is always at the top and other preferences pages are
listed in alphabetical order as Eclipse did. For example:
root -> General (node - preference page)
-> A (node - preference page)
-> B (node - preference page)
-> C (node - preference page)
-> ...

Does anybody kwnow how Eclipse have done that for their preferences
pages?

Thanks for your help.

Re: How to sort the preferences pages ? [message #332899 is a reply to message #332893]

Thu, 13 November 2008 04:30

Eclipse User

You need to specify root as the parent of the A, B & C preference pages

- Prakash
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http://blog.eclipse-tips.com

"Mabu " <hoangtonghop@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:fef81559ad51156a1233d3271312e231$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hi
> I've created a few pages preferences using the plugin
> org.eclipse.ui.preferences. But the problem is I want the General
> preference page is always at the top and other preferences pages are
> listed in alphabetical order as Eclipse did. For example:
> root -> General (node - preference page)
> -> A (node - preference page)
> -> B (node - preference page)
> -> C (node - preference page)
> -> ...
>
> Does anybody kwnow how Eclipse have done that for their preferences
> pages?
>
> Thanks for your help.
>

Re: How to sort the preferences pages ? [message #332904 is a reply to message #332899]

Thu, 13 November 2008 08:27

Eclipse User

I did it by using the option Category of the plugin
org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages for indicating the location of the
preference pages in the tree but when i open the preferences dialog, the
tree automatically sorted the node names by alphabetical order. So I don't
know how to specify the root of the nodes as you say. Please tell me more
details about this.

Thanks a lot!

Re: How to sort the preferences pages ? [message #332924 is a reply to message #332904]

Fri, 14 November 2008 04:15

Eclipse User

The category for A,B&C should be the id of the root. Is it possible to share
the plugin.xml ?

- Prakash
--

http://blog.eclipse-tips.com

"Mabu " <hoangtonghop@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:9407c2a44146c500430ea859496730b4$1@www.eclipse.org...
> I did it by using the option Category of the plugin
> org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages for indicating the location of the
> preference pages in the tree but when i open the preferences dialog, the
> tree automatically sorted the node names by alphabetical order. So I don't
> know how to specify the root of the nodes as you say. Please tell me more
> details about this.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
>

Re: How to sort the preferences pages ? [message #332928 is a reply to message #332924]

Fri, 14 November 2008 09:00

Eclipse User

In fact, the preferences pages I created are in some different plug-ins so
I can't share all of them, just an example:

<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages">
<page
class="RootPage"
id="root"
name="Root">
</page>
<page
category="root"
class="GeneralPage"
id="general"
name="General">
</page>
<page
category="root"
class="APage"
id="A"
name="A">
</page>
<page
category="root"
class="BPage"
id="B"
name="B">
</page>
<page
category="root"
class="CPage"
id="C"
name="C">
</page>
<page
category="root"
class="XPage"
id="X"
name="X">
</page>

</extension>

I grouped all the preferences pages by using the id of the root. The
result I received is
root -> A (node - preference page)
-> B (node - preference page)
-> C (node - preference page)
-> General (node - preference page)
-> X

But I want General node is always at the top.

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