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Wed, 29 April 2009 06:23

Eclipse User

Hi,

I have created a formatter.xml in for eclipse. Instead of importing the
xml everytime, is there a way to load this formatter.xml during the
eclipse startup?

Please advice.

Thanks in advance,
Lloyd Lamington

Re: Formatter [message #259941 is a reply to message #259884]

Fri, 01 May 2009 14:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: benno_baumgartner.ch.ibm.com

Lloyd Lamington wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have created a formatter.xml in for eclipse. Instead of importing the
> xml everytime, is there a way to load this formatter.xml during the
> eclipse startup?

No, but you need to import it only once anyway, no?

Benno

Re: Formatter [message #259990 is a reply to message #259941]

Tue, 05 May 2009 04:39

Eclipse User

yes. it has to be done only once.. but whenever we switch workspace, the
formatter seems to change and also, we dont want the developers to keep
changing it. We need to preset it to the formatter that complies with the
coding standards in our organization.

Re: Formatter [message #260000 is a reply to message #259990]

Tue, 05 May 2009 11:39

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

Lloyd Lamington wrote:
> yes. it has to be done only once.. but whenever we switch workspace, the
> formatter seems to change and also, we dont want the developers to keep
> changing it. We need to preset it to the formatter that complies with
> the coding standards in our organization.

Note: please quote at least part of the message when replying, so that
everyone sees the context of the discussion.

Have you looked into using project-specific settings that are checked
in? Each project can control many aspects of the preferences, including
formatting I think, and those get saved in the .settings directory under
the project; that directory can be checked in to CVS (or whatever
version control you use) and Eclipse will honor them on all
installations that check out the project.

Hope this helps,
Eric

Re: Formatter [message #260035 is a reply to message #260000]

Thu, 07 May 2009 07:50

Eclipse User

i have created a plugin that has org.eclipse.ui.startup extension. in the
earlyStartup() method, what should i do so that my-formatter.xml gets
loaded as the formatter? Please advice.

Eric Rizzo wrote:

> Lloyd Lamington wrote:
>> yes. it has to be done only once.. but whenever we switch workspace, the
>> formatter seems to change and also, we dont want the developers to keep
>> changing it. We need to preset it to the formatter that complies with
>> the coding standards in our organization.

> Note: please quote at least part of the message when replying, so that
> everyone sees the context of the discussion.

> Have you looked into using project-specific settings that are checked
> in? Each project can control many aspects of the preferences, including
> formatting I think, and those get saved in the .settings directory under
> the project; that directory can be checked in to CVS (or whatever
> version control you use) and Eclipse will honor them on all
> installations that check out the project.

> Hope this helps,
> Eric

Re: Formatter [message #260038 is a reply to message #260035]

Thu, 07 May 2009 08:31

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: benno_baumgartner.ch.ibm.com

Lloyd Lamington wrote:
> i have created a plugin that has org.eclipse.ui.startup extension. in
> the earlyStartup() method, what should i do so that my-formatter.xml
> gets loaded as the formatter? Please advice.

See
org.eclipse.jdt.internal.ui.preferences.formatter.ProfileCon figurationBlock.ButtonController.loadButtonPressed()

But this is internal code, no guarantees whatsoever, use at your own risk!

>> Have you looked into using project-specific settings that are checked
>> in? Each project can control many aspects of the preferences,
>> including formatting I think, and those get saved in the .settings
>> directory under the project; that directory can be checked in to CVS
>> (or whatever version control you use) and Eclipse will honor them on
>> all installations that check out the project.

I agree with Eric that this is the way to go.

HTH
Benno

>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Eric
>
>

Re: Formatter [message #260085 is a reply to message #260035]

Mon, 11 May 2009 11:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

Lloyd Lamington wrote:
> i have created a plugin that has org.eclipse.ui.startup extension. in
> the earlyStartup() method, what should i do so that my-formatter.xml
> gets loaded as the formatter? Please advice.

Did you even read what I wrote (quoted below)? I would definitely
recommend against using an auto-start plug-in to do this.

Eric

> Eric Rizzo wrote:
>
>> Lloyd Lamington wrote:
>>> yes. it has to be done only once.. but whenever we switch workspace,
>>> the formatter seems to change and also, we dont want the developers
>>> to keep changing it. We need to preset it to the formatter that
>>> complies with the coding standards in our organization.
>
>> Note: please quote at least part of the message when replying, so that
>> everyone sees the context of the discussion.
>
>> Have you looked into using project-specific settings that are checked
>> in? Each project can control many aspects of the preferences,
>> including formatting I think, and those get saved in the .settings
>> directory under the project; that directory can be checked in to CVS
>> (or whatever version control you use) and Eclipse will honor them on
>> all installations that check out the project.
>
>> Hope this helps,
>> Eric
>
>

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