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[Acceleo] Problem with Quickstart Guide [message #689040]

Sun, 26 June 2011 16:17

Tim Cook

Messages: 10
Registered: June 2011

Junior Member

Hi All,

I am going through the Quick_Start on the Acceleo wiki (sorry but it won't allow me to post links yet).

When I get to the point of Running the template. Run As -> 1 Launch Acceleo Application

I get the error Selection does not contain a main type (@main annotation is missing in your template)

My template looks like the one in the tutorial AFAICT. Except for the fact I had to remove the http from the URI in this message. It is there in the actual template.

[comment encoding = UTF-8 /]
[module generate('www.eclipse.org/uml2/3.0.0/UML')]

[template public generateElement(c : Class)]

[comment @main /]
[file (c.name,false,'UTF-8')]
Hello, [c.name /] World!
[/file]

[/template]

Any ideas?

--Tim

[Updated on: Sun, 26 June 2011 16:18]

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SOLVED Re: [Acceleo] Problem with Quickstart Guide [message #689044 is a reply to message #689040]

Sun, 26 June 2011 16:42

Tim Cook

Messages: 10
Registered: June 2011

Junior Member

You must first Build the project. That is not automatically performed.

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Re: SOLVED Re: [Acceleo] Problem with Quickstart Guide [message #689052 is a reply to message #689044]

Sun, 26 June 2011 17:02

Stephane Begaudeau

Messages: 458
Registered: April 2010
Location: Nantes (France)

Senior Member

Hi,

By default, Eclipse builds automatically all projects, you should check if you haven't disabled it in the menu "project" -> "build automatically". Several features of the Acceleo tooling like real time errors detection or refactoring need that some/all Acceleo modules involved are built. If this options is deactivated I'll advise you to active it to turn it on for a better experience.

Regards,

Stephane Begaudeau, Obeo

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