[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Wizard Pages

[Eric Rizzo <eclipse-news@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Adithya,
I'm going to give you some unsolicited advice; I hope you don't take it 
the wrong way as I'm trying to be gentle but at the same time point out 
something about yourself that you probably don't want to hear.

The kinds of questions you ask, and the way in which you ask them, make 
it difficult for anyone to help you.

The questions are too broad and general, lacking the important details. 
They tend to be general instead of specific; they seldom include code 
that can be analyzed.
Furthermore, it often appears that you have not taken the time to 
reasearch on your own before asking; research includes reading the Help 
documentation (including tutorials), the articles from eclipse.org, 
other tutorials, browsing Eclipse platform code, and (perhaps most 
importantly) using the debugger. Many, many questions can be answered by 
debugging existing code to analyze what it is doing; it is a very 
powerful tool and, in my experience, leads to a better understanding 
than getting an explanation from someone else.
Even if browsing source code, reading documentation, and debugging don't 
get you 100% of the answer, it will arm you with more specific 
information with which to ask your question; questions with more 
specific information are usually more likely to be answered.

Please understand that I am not making these statements out of malice or 
to insult you; I am actually trying to help you by encouraging you to 
help us help you. These forums are always open to any question by 
anyone, but the best-formulated questions will always get the most 
useful answers.
This link is very relevant - it is long but well worth the time to read 
completely: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Sincerely,
Eric



On 4/16/2009 2:11 AM, adithya wrote:
> I have created a wizard which has 3 pages.
> For the 2nd page and 3rd page i have given an option like "Do you want
> to add again??" 1)Yes 2)No
> On clicking 'Yes' and pressing 'Next' I am emptying the contents of the
> current page and displaying the same page with the text boxes emptied..
>
> Whatever data is being entered i am appending in an xml file..For the
> 1st page its working fine but for 2nd and 3rd the last record entered is
> getting entered as many times i press 'Next' .
>
> What could be the problem??
>
> Adithya.