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how to show something the first time you run a plugin [message #220687]

Fri, 02 April 2004 09:16

Eclipse User

yeup!

i have seen in some plugins that the first time you run them, appears a
welcome page and in the new release of eclipse (M8) also appears a dialog
where we can insert the default workspace directory. ¿How can i do these
things in my plugin? i want to ask something with a dialog only the first
time. any indications of where to look?

thanks

Re: how to show something the first time you run a plugin [message #220717 is a reply to message #220687]

Fri, 02 April 2004 10:05

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.NO.SPAM.us.ibm.com

Typically it is stored in the plugin preferences (which you can get from
the plugin class). But if you do have this option, when you turn it off,
you need to have a preference page available in the Window->Preferences
dialog to turn it back on.

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Thanks, Rich Kulp

Re: how to show something the first time you run a plugin [message #220772 is a reply to message #220717]

Fri, 02 April 2004 11:16

Eclipse User

> Typically it is stored in the plugin preferences (which you can get from
> the plugin class). But if you do have this option, when you turn it off,
> you need to have a preference page available in the Window->Preferences
> dialog to turn it back on.

thank you very much. I was thinking in creating a file in the plugin
directory by myself where i would save the properties i need. But this is
much better :-D

I have doubts of how to use this. I have put the following code in the
plugin constructor:

pref = this.getPluginPreferences();
if (pref.getBoolean("first")==false)
{
pref.setValue("first",true);
}else
{
//nothing
}

and if i restart the eclipse workbench always says that the value "first"
is false;

why is this?

thanks

Re: how to show something the first time you run a plugin [message #221174 is a reply to message #220772]

Fri, 02 April 2004 18:00

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.NO.SPAM.us.ibm.com

By default plugin preferences aren't implicitly saved between sessions.
You need to call plugin.savePreferences() after you make the change.

--
Thanks, Rich Kulp

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