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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 11:42

Eclipse User

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

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 13:38

Eclipse User

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

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 11:12

Eclipse User

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

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 06:58

Eclipse User

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

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 17:00

Eclipse User

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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