Re: [cdt-dev] Determine which project template was selected during wizar

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Beth,

I was trying to do something similar, but couldn't come up with a way of doing 
it using the standard model. So, I wrote my own template Processes. This allowed 
me to do several other things (a Wildcard copy of files, for example)

I think there are a number of serious limitations to the templates and Custom 
wizard pages that need some thought through if they are to be useful (you can 
really tell they were developed independently!):

1. Currently, they are entirely independent processes, with no interaction 
between them (unless you write your own template process). There needs to be a 
way for them to co-operate (share data and UI).

2. The template UI is static. That is, there is no way to modify what to display 
at run time. For example I want to be able to populate a combo box with things I 
can only know at run time. We'll ignore the fact that the UI is very crude...

3. I'd like to be able to modify the 'flow' through the template UI depending on 
selections made by the user (e.g. show/hide particular pages).

There are others, but I can't remember them off the top of my head...
--
Derek


Beth Tibbitts wrote:
> I need to determine which project template was selected by the user, while
> i am processing a wizard page from the managed build wizard pages.
> So basically, I'm using the project templates from the templateengine but
> the wizard pages from the managed build system. (since i have some specific
> processing to do, accessing the MBS data).
>
> While in the wizard page, i want to make decisions about what to show the
> user, and which MBS settings to modify, based on which project template was
> selected.
>
> <extension point="org.eclipse.cdt.managedbuilder.ui.newWizardPages">
>  <wizardPage.
>   ID="org.eclipse.ptp.pldt.wizards.wizardPages.MPIProjectWizardPage"
>   operationClass=
> "org.eclipse.ptp.pldt.wizards.wizardPages.MPIProjectRunnable" // Runnable
>   pageClass=.
> "org.eclipse.ptp.pldt.wizards.wizardPages.MPIProjectWizardPage"> //
> MBSCustomPage
>  </wizardPage>
>  </extension>
>
> <extension point="org.eclipse.cdt.core.templates">
>  <template
>    id="org.eclipse.ptp.pldt.projects.MPIhelloWorldCProject"
>    location=."templates/MPIhelloWorldCproject/template.xml"
>    projectType="org.eclipse.cdt.build.core.buildArtefactType.exe">
>  </template>.
>
> How can i tell, while in the MBSCustomPage (wizard page), which template
> was selected by the user?
> If there was a way to set an attribute/value in the template xml, and
> access that from the MBSCustomPage, I think I could do what I need to do.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?
>
> I would also be happy if I could run a different MBS wizard page based on
> project type, but the project types aren't fine-grained enough
> (they are not my projects determined by the templates).
>
> More discussion of this is in
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205182
>
> Can anyone help? Thanks.
>
>
> ...Beth
>
> Beth Tibbitts  (859) 243-4981  (TL 545-4981)
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