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clean f2: create a tool with an invalid location. execute. two dialogs appear: first, a progress information dialog saying 'operation in progress' but not yet rendering a progress bar, and an error dialog 'problem running external tool'. 1. the progress information dialog should not appear. is it not possible to attempt to start the tool's process before starting the progress information dialog? 2. the error message "the tool's file does not exist for the external tool named <name>" should be better worded and more descriptive. Perhaps replace "tool's file" with "tool" somehow. Consider "Tool <name> could not be run/executed/found.\n\nLocation: <location>\nArguments: <arguments>" (etc..). i personally prefer that the title of error message boxes are always "Error" and the message text reveals the nature of the error, but whatever the naming scheme it should be consistent across Eclipse.
Defer until after release 2.0 This happens in other areas of Eclipse also. Maybe a generic solution can be found?
Remove the Later resolution
Trying again
Using the launch config support, I cannot create a tool with an invalid location (the launch dialog verifies the location, and will not let me save it). If I configure a tool to run an ant script, and then change the name of the ant scrpit, I get the following error message in a dialog: "The variable workspace_loc with argument /A/hello.xml could not be expanded to a valid path". We could improve this error message.
Revisit after 2.1
Feedback from users indicates that the error message is extremely confusing. We should make the message more helpful.
Fixed. When a variable cannot be expanded, the variable expander now throws a CoreException with a status containing a meaningful message. Please verify, DarinW.
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