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Appearance preferences unable to find themes [message #1073726]

Thu, 25 July 2013 11:35

n m

Messages: 7
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

I had a 3.x plugin which I wanted to migrate to a 4.x plugin using the compatibility layer. I followed the steps outlined in this tutorial - www.vogella.com/articles/Eclipse4MigrationGuide/article.html. I have a product based on features to which I added the following dependencies -

org.eclipse.emf.ecore

and

org.eclipse.emf.common

When I launched the product, there was no theme on the workbench and did not look like an E4 application. Also when I went to the Preferences dialog the Appearance preference gave me the error of "The currently displayed page contains invalid values."

The following stack trace was in the console,

!ENTRY org.eclipse.jface 4 2 2013-07-25 12:30:06.569
!MESSAGE Problems occurred when invoking code from plug-in: "org.eclipse.jface".
!STACK 0
java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.eclipse.ui.internal.dialogs.ViewsPreferencePage.createContents(ViewsPreferencePage.java:74)
	at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferencePage.createControl(PreferencePage.java:232)
	at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog.createPageControl(PreferenceDialog.java:1502)
	at org.eclipse.jface.preference.PreferenceDialog$14.run(PreferenceDialog.java:1259)
	at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
.....

This is occurring from the

themeIdCombo.setInput(engine.getThemes());

statement in the ViewsPreferencesPage.class. Hence I believe it is not finding any of the css files in the org.eclipse.platform.

I am not sure if there is something else I am missing.

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Re: Appearance preferences unable to find themes [message #1073809 is a reply to message #1073726]

Thu, 25 July 2013 14:23

n m

Messages: 7
Registered: February 2012

Junior Member

So I made it work by adding the following things in my org.eclipse.core.runtime.products extension,

<property
    name="cssTheme"
    value="org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.theme.e4_default">
</property>
<property
    name="applicationCSSResources"
    value="platform:/plugin/org.eclipse.platform/images/">
</property>

It seems that the Theme Engine does not start unless the cssTheme property is defined.
I don't know if this is the proper way of doing it so I am open to suggestions.

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