[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Establishing Initial Launch Configurations

[kyle_of_isle@xxxxxxxxxxx (Asaf Mesika)]

I know this posted long ago, but I'm facing the same problem, without any 
help found in the Eclipse manuals.

Thanks,

Asaf


Bud Curtis wrote:

> We would like to establish a few custom launch configurations when our 
> plugin is installed.  I believe these configurations have to be installed 
> when ever the user establishes a new workspace.  What would be the best 
> technique to accomplish this?

> 1. We could establish a .Lauch file for each unique job in a project when 
> the user creates one of our project types, but we would only want one 
> created for the workspace or project level launches will be repeated for 
> each project in a workspace.

> 2. A custom lauch could be created when a new workspace is selected in the 
> workspace's  .metadata.pluginsorg.eclipse.debug.core.launches... folder. 
> However, I do not know how to capture that moment from our plugin. Also, I 
> do not know how to get the initial lauch set up with Eclipse once the 
> workspace is created.

> I would be very interested in any comments you might have with regard to 
> this topic.  Perhaps there is a third way which is better than the first two 
> choices.