Description Jeffrey Overbey 2010-06-11 14:19:17 EDT

Three strings for the various Fortran source forms were externalized to bundle.properties, but they are being looked for in plugin.properties instead (and are not found).  This problem affects 6.0 RC4.  This means that the Outline view and the Source Forms property page display incorrectly.  See attached screenshots.

This is a serious regression because

* every user will see this bug.  It is apparent every time the Outline view is open and every time the Source Forms property page is opened.

* Source Form properties must be set for every Photran project, including projects upgrading from Photran 5, so the Source Forms property page is critical for the 6.0 release.

* the externalized names that are displayed instead (%source-form.name.1, %source-form.name.2) do not adequately describe the intent.  This is a very serious usability problem.

The fix is technically very simple (move the externalized strings into plugin.properties) and should have no impact on other projects in the Helios train.

As for why this bug was not discovered until now, (1) those strings were externalized just prior to RC4 (not having them externalized was a bug in itself), and (2) this bug only appeared in the RC4 build; the externalized strings work correctly in the runtime workspace, for reasons I don't completely understand.