[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Using eclipse forms

[Steve Blass <swb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kiran wrote:
> I use eclipse 3.0 and I did a update recently and plugin versions are at
> 3.0.1. I am trying to use the simple forms example and added forms.jar
> from org.eclipse.ui.forms_3.0.0 and wrote a simple example from
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/~checkout~/pde-ui-home/working/EclipseForms/EclipseForms.html.
> However I get a exception that the part was not created. Is this because
> form 3.0.0 is not compatible with 3.0.1. 
> Please help.

Is there not an org.eclipse.ui.forms plugin in the eclipse/plugins 
directory?   You should be able to add a dependency on that in your own 
plugin rather than copying the jar file, and be good to go.

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Steve