Bug 54788

Summary:	[Preferences] Path variable preference page not updated
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Gunnar Wagenknecht <gunnar>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P5	CC:	dj.houghton
Version:	2.1.2	Keywords:	helpwanted
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Gunnar Wagenknecht

2004-03-14 23:57:55 EST

Our plugins have their own set of preference pages. If someone press the apply 
button, some settings are performed and some Java classpath and Platform path 
variables are set/updated.

If someone has opened (instanciated) the Platform's path variable preference 
page before, then modified our page, then pressed apply, and then reselect it, 
its internal model is not updated. It still contains the old path variables.

The Java's classpath variable preference page has excactly the same problem. I 
have to close and reopen the preferences dialog to see the new values.

Comment 1 Gunnar Wagenknecht

2004-03-14 23:59:14 EST

see also bug 54787

Comment 2 Darin Wright

2004-03-19 10:31:03 EST

The path variable page is owned by Platform-UI. The java page is JDT-UI.

Moving to JDT-UI for comment.

Comment 3 Martin Aeschlimann

2004-03-19 12:30:04 EST

I fixed this for the classpath variable preference page (see bug 54787).

This is the stategy that we also have for the build path property page:

When leaving the page, the user is prompted to save the setting so other pages
see the changes.
Whe the page is entered, the page checks if the saved sate is different than
before and if yes, it refreshes the page (all unsaved changes ar lost)

Comment 4 Tod Creasey

2004-03-29 11:00:13 EST

No plans for 3.0

Comment 5 Tod Creasey

2004-06-28 11:28:00 EDT

Reopening now that 3.0 has shipped

Comment 6 Tod Creasey

2005-02-01 13:53:07 EST

This might be an interesting case for the working copy support in 3.1.

Comment 7 Susan McCourt

2009-07-09 19:26:15 EDT

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

Comment 8 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:18:53 EDT

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