Re: [cdt-dev] Question about the "GDB" preference page

[Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know much about either Capabilities or product_customization.
I know there is a preference page for capabilities.  Maybe you can
force it on?

Anyone else? 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Jin
> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:25 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: Re: [cdt-dev] Question about the "GDB" preference page
> 
> Thanks for the quick response, Marc. That make senses now.
> 
> Is there a way I can "force" to show this page in our product? Maybe
> through product_customization.ini file? It's quite confusing 
> if we mention
> this in our doc but not presenting to users.
> 
> On 12-02-23 3:14 PM, "Marc Khouzam" <marc.khouzam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> >
> >We use Capabilities to prevent showing preference pages that are not
> >relevant.
> >Sadly, we can't know what the user will need in debug until 
> they launch
> >the
> >first time.
> >
> >http://wiki.eclipse.org/CDT/User/FAQ#I_don.27t_see_the_debug_
> preferences_p
> >ages 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Andy Jin
> >> Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:06 PM
> >> To: cdt-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
> >> Subject: [cdt-dev] Question about the "GDB" preference page
> >> 
> >> I am working on incorporating Pretty Printing in QNX
> >> Momentics. We bundle CDT 8.0.1.
> >> 
> >> From looking at the code, org.eclipse.cdt.dsf.gdb.ui plugins
> >> contribute the "GDB" preference page which includes settings
> >> for Pretty Printing.
> >> 
> >> To try it out, I download the Eclipse CPP package for Indigo SR1.
> >> 
> >> However I don't see this preference page under "C/C++ ->
> >> Debug". Only after I run debug once using DSF, this page shows up.
> >> 
> >> This is a surprised behaviour. This preference page is
> >> contributed statically from the plugin.xml so it should show
> >> up whenever the preferences dialog is open, it should not
> >> depend on the lazy loading of the plugins.
> >> 
> >> Maybe I miss something?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> Andy
> >> 
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