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Save settings/properties from all plug-ins [message #1575066]

Tue, 20 January 2015 16:01

Alexander Kerner

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Registered: January 2015

Junior Member

Hi,

I'm trying to implement a "settings-export" for my rcp application.
I know that I can access a plug-ins preferences via the IPreferenceStore, but unfortunately this returns settings specific to a certain plug-in.
I'm looking for some possibility to export all my settings in a global way.

Any suggestions?

Many thanks in advance!

Alex

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Re: Save settings/properties from all plug-ins [message #1575289 is a reply to message #1575066]

Tue, 20 January 2015 18:47

Eclipse User

Could you just re-use the existing preferences import/export mechanism? See org.eclipse.ui.de's org.eclipse.ui.importWizards and .exportWizards for how to hook them up.

If not, take a look at how the workbench's preference export does it. Your starting point is org.eclipse.ui.internal.wizards.preferences.WizardPreferencesExportPage1.

If you have the Eclipse SDK installed, you'll have the PDE Plug-in Spy tools (Alt-Shift-F1 and Alt-Shift-F2) which allow introspecting on the classes used to implement various views, editors, wizards, menus, and toolbars.

Brian.

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