Bug 283308 - LaunchConfigurationsDialog should support filtering by substring without delimiters similar to PDE's PluginSelectionDialog
Summary: LaunchConfigurationsDialog should support filtering by substring without deli...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: PDE
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 3.5   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows XP
: P3 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone: 3.6 M2   Edit
Assignee: Curtis Windatt CLA
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Reported: 2009-07-13 08:55 EDT by Andreas Goetz CLA
Modified: 2009-08-19 17:24 EDT (History)
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Description Andreas Goetz CLA 2009-07-13 08:55:35 EDT 
Configuring a launch configuration often requires selecting a number of plugins based on a pattern, eg. anything for "mylyn". This is supported by the LaunchConfigurationsDialog. However, LaunchConfigurationsDialog starts string matching from pos 1 and therefore requried to prepend the * pattern in this case. This seems inconvenient and is not in sync with other selection dialogs as e.g. PluginSelectionDialog.
My suggestion is to only match by substring, not starting from beginning of the plugin name.
Comment 1 Curtis Windatt CLA 2009-07-27 12:27:26 EDT 
+1 for this.  Also happens in the plug-in artifact selection dialog (Ctrl-Shift-A).  Constantly find it annoying since plug-ins always start with the same prefixes.

Would you consider writing a patch for this?
Comment 2 Curtis Windatt CLA 2009-08-19 15:50:06 EDT 
Fixed in HEAD see AbstractPluginBlock.java

This will affect all of the pde launch configs with plugin blocks (including the osgi launch configs).

Note that the artifact selection dialog was changed to support this in 3.5.
Comment 3 Andreas Goetz CLA 2009-08-19 17:24:53 EDT 
Great- thank you very much!