Bug 116413

Summary:	[ErrorHandling][Preferences] Improved error messages for using PreferencePages
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Thilo Brause <ThiloBrause>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	dsayed, Tod_Creasey
Version:	3.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Thilo Brause

2005-11-15 04:50:43 EST

When doing anything wrong with a Preference Page, at selecting the faulty page
under "Preferences" nearly always lead to the message:" Unable to create the
selected PreferencePage Reason: .... Plugin was unable to load class
...Preference Page". In most cases this error message leads into a complete
wrong direction of error-searching and debugging. Maybe it would be possible to
throw exceptions with better error messages, for example the error in my case
was produced by an error in the ..Plugin.java. (And I spend a day searching in
my PreferencePage and the calling classes)

Comment 1 Susan McCourt

2009-07-09 19:04:30 EDT

As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009

Comment 2 Dina Sayed

2009-09-24 07:59:34 EDT

I don't know how to reproduce this scenario, can you explain it in more details and attach a screen shot if possible?

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:09:46 EDT

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