RE: [cdt-dev] New Project Wizard missing from drop-down

["Bernard Ogden" <Bernard.Ogden@xxxxxxx>]

Yep, 'Window|Reset Perspective' fixes the problem, as does 'eclipse
-clean'. I guess the 'right' level of caching is one of those things
that's impossible to get right. At least I now have some workarounds.

Thanks both!

Regards,

Bernie

Wieant Nielander wrote:
>> I find that if I install a newer version of Eclipse + CDT + my
>> company's plugins and that install then picks up an existing
>> workspace belonging to an older install, then the New Project wizard
>> that has been added to my company's plugins does not appear in the
>> 'New' dropdown, although it remains available from the 'New
>> Projects' dialog. 
>  ...
>> I assume that what is going on is that Eclipse should be updating the
>> workbench.xml file on startup, but for some reason is not adding the
>> entry for our wizard. Can anyone tell me why the update is not
>> happening, or how to force Eclipse to perform it? I've tried command
>> line options such as -refresh and -initialize, but these do not
>> appear to fix my problem. Any pointers to docs on workbench.xml or
>> how Eclipse updates metadata would also be helpful.
> 
> I think we have ran into the same problem as you have, could you check
> if a 'Window | Reset Perspective' forces your entry in the 'New'
> dropdown? If so then we're talking about the same issue.
> 
> Point is that as soon as you select a Perspective for the first time,
> Eclipse will save the initial state of that perspective at that
> moment, you can then change the perspective any way you like and your
> 'personalized' state will be saved accordingly. Now in theory your
> personal preference could be not to have the
> 'com.arm.eclipse.cdt.newproject.wizard' in the 'New' dropdown, so
> Eclipse cannot just add it afterwards. At least this was my analysis
> of the issue.
> 
> Regards,
>   Wieant
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Bernie Ogden
Product Engineering Group
ARM Ltd

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