RE: [cdt-dev] Problem in accessing CoreFileLaunchConfigurationTabGroup,

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Nayna Jain
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 1:32 AM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: RE: [cdt-dev] Problem in accessing 
> CoreFileLaunchConfigurationTabGroup, LaunchMessages and 
> LaunchUIPlugin in CDT 6.0.1
> 
> Hi Marc,
> Thanks for the updates.
> 
> What I understand from your reply is that now *Tabs in the 
> *TabGroups can
> be created using extension points and there is no need to implement
> *TabGroup files and createTabs() methods.
> 
> Is it right ?

Yes that is right.

 I tried looking for the document which gives understanding of 
> this design
> something like we had earliar -
> http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Launch-Framework/launch.html
> But except the extension point details in Eclipse Help 
> Manual, I couldn't
> find anything.
> 
> Can you please give some pointers where can I get design and 
> understanding
> for this extension point.

There is some info here
http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/extension-points/index.html
look under the debug section

> Moreover when I tried to look at CDT launch source code, I found that
> though they use *Tab extension point... They still use *TabGroup files
> where they still have the method createTabs() implemented. 
> So, it is quite confusing.

Yes, there cleanup was not properly done there.
But if you loko at most of the *TabGroup files, you will notice
they are not used anywhere in CDT, we just forgot remove them.