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Re: [pde-ui-dev] New Extension Wizard in M8
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Creating a new extension was too much of a productionfor the average user
using the pre-M8 wizard. That is why we changed it. The new one is
significantly better and is likely to stay as-is.
However, as you observed, the new wizard does make the assumption that each
template corresponds to a single existing extension point. This is
because, in the SDK, that's what the templates that PDE provides are like.
So the current behavior is quite the inconvenience for users who have been
using the (still internal as of M8) newExtension extension point to add new
wizards of their choice that may or may not be categorized and may or may
not correspond to a single extension.
As we plan to make these extension points public in M9, we'll take your use
case into consideration.
It would probably not be a good idea to complicate the basic new extension
wizard for these cases. So a possibility might be to have an additional
button "Add Custom..." that invokes another wizard that resembles the
pre-M8 one which will contain categories and the special wizards that you
contribute.
We apologize for the inconvenience this change in behavior may have caused
you.
Wassim.
Frederic
Plante/Ottawa/IBM
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[pde-ui-dev] New Extension Wizard
04/13/2004 06:04 in M8
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pde-ui-dev
The new extension wizard available in M8 does not display wizard categories
anymore. This is a problem for us since we used to add a new category to
host high-level wizards not associated with any given single extension
point. E.g. We use such a category to host a menu contribution wizard that
can guide the user to generate/modify many extension points (e.g.
ActionSet, ActionSetAssociationPart, PerspectiveExtension, etc...).
Your advise regarding how we should now hook such high level wizards would
be appreciated.
- Fred
