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RCP, p2, Vista and VirtualStore
I have an RCP application that uses p2 and needs to run on all of our platforms (this uses 3.4.2). Everything was great until Vista came along. On Vista when going to the Software Updates… dialog it gets the “not properly configured” dialog and won’t let me do the fun p2 stuff.
The problem is that [...]
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Application “…” could not be found in the registry.
Just spent a couple of hours debugging one of these and thought I would write it up in hopes that it makes things better.
My use case is that I’m calling my application from an API which means I’m dynamically starting it using the EclipseStarter class (with reflection since I can’t reference Eclipse stuff from the [...]
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How cool is this?
I was looking at this:
/*
* Non-Javadoc. Method declared on Viewer.
*/
public void refresh() {
refresh(getRoot());
}
I hit F3 when Viewer was selected and it took me there. It appeared to do it because it matched the name of a class. Hitting F3 on Method also worked. Pretty cool!
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Warnings
I was just talking with my wife and told her that I only had a couple of more sets of warnings to go:
her: “What are you talking about?”
me: “In the Common Navigator.”
her: “You don’t have warnings, that must have been what you inherited.”
me: “Yes, there are about 6300 warnings in Platform UI/JDT code right now. [...]
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New Platform Text page in the Wiki
I was inspired by Jeff’s recent post about contributing and decided to put an example of using a SourceViewer with Annotations (which took me a while to figure out) in the Platform Text Wiki. As I’m not an expert in Platform Text (or much else at this point), I made have made some mistakes or [...]
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Nice little things
I just noticed that in the JUnit view when you select a test that’s failing it (now) goes to the line in the test case that has the failure. This is such a nice feature and it’s one example of how people take the time to “do the right thing” such that you hardly [...]
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Thanks Ed!
I was just doing some work on my product’s code to import XSD definitions, which I have not touched in probably a couple of years and I ran across this comment (in my code):
// This is the effective simple type, either from the baseType
// or the contentType, the XSD stuff figures this out (thanks Ed!)
It [...]
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Introduction
I’m the Platform UI group’s newest committer and my main interest at this point is the Common Navigator. I have been using it in the development of my RCP application now for about 9 months, but I’m by no means an expert. However, I’m sure I will become one soon. My intention as a committer [...]
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