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Best way to not show the select ui preference pages from contributing plugins to RCP application [message #491938]

Fri, 16 October 2009 15:42

Greg Babcock

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Registered: July 2009

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The preference dialog form my RCP application show the preference settings
for org.eclipse.ui plugin.
Most of the settings do not apply to my application, so I do not want them
displayed. The obvious way to do this would be to make
a copy of the contributing plugin and edit the plugin.xml file, but I am
hoping that there is a better way.

Thanks,

GB

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Re: Best way to not show the select ui preference pages from contributing plugins to RCP application [message #491956 is a reply to message #491938]

Fri, 16 October 2009 17:38

Paul Webster

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Location: Ottawa

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You can either use Capabilities/Activities [1] to filter out the preference pages, or create your own command/handler and open the preferences dialog yourself similar to:

org.eclipse.ui.internal.OpenPreferencesAction.run()

[1] http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench_scalability.htm

PW

Paul Webster
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Re: Best way to not show the select ui preference pages from contributing plugins to RCP application [message #492093 is a reply to message #491956]

Sun, 18 October 2009 15:12

Greg Babcock

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Thank you, I am new to RCP development and didn't know about Activities,
this is clearly the best way to handle this situation.

I have added the following extension point to disable the preference pages,
and also inspected the MutableActivityManager to verify that activity was
getting set, and that it is disabled, but I am still getting the eclipse
preference pages in the dialog. What am I missing?

<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.activities">

<activity id="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages" name="eclipse preference
pages"> </activity>

<activityPatternBinding activityId="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages"
pattern="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.*">

</activityPatternBinding>

</extension>

"Paul Webster" <pwebster@ca.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:hbab31$epg$1@build.eclipse.org...
> You can either use Capabilities/Activities [1] to filter out the
> preference pages, or create your own command/handler and open the
> preferences dialog yourself similar to:
>
> org.eclipse.ui.internal.OpenPreferencesAction.run()
>
> [1]
> http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse .platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench_scalability.htm
>
> PW
>
> --
> Paul Webster
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

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Re: Best way to not show the select ui preference pages from contributing plugins to RCP application [message #492183 is a reply to message #492093]

Mon, 19 October 2009 10:58

Ravi

Messages: 27
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

The pattern should match with the preference ids contributed by eclipse ui. check if the preference id have the same prefix you have given for the pattern.

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Ravi

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Re: Best way to not show the select ui preference pages from contributing plugins to RCP application [message #492300 is a reply to message #492183]

Mon, 19 October 2009 21:00

Greg Babcock

Messages: 53
Registered: July 2009

Member

Thank you, after changing the activity pattern binding to
pattern="org.eclipse.ui.*"> it now filters out the preference page as
expected. I am confused about where the preference ID is defined because
what I originally had (pattern="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.*") should
have matched, and pattern="org.eclipse.ui.ide.*" matches but it shouldn't.
Below is the pertinent section of extention point decloration if am trying
to filter from the org.eclipse.ui.ide plugin.

<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages">
<page name="%PreferencePages.Workbench"

class=" org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.dialogs.IDEWorkbenchPreferencePa ge "

id="org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.Workbench">

<keywordReference id="org.eclipse.ui.ide.general"/>

</page>

.....

Regards,

GB

I have modified the
"Ravi" <v.r.sankar@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:hbhgov$3ra$1@build.eclipse.org...
> The pattern should match with the preference ids contributed by eclipse
> ui. check if the preference id have the same prefix you have given for the
> pattern.
>
> --
> Ravi

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