[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Launchconfiguration

["John J. Barton" <johnjbarton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

R4ID wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have two questions about eclipse launch configurations:
>
> 1.) I want to save seettings made by my own TAB panel. The user may 
> select two files from the workspace. If now the launch configuration is 
> opened again this setting must have been persistet. Thus I used a 
> properties file to store the path of the two files. Is there a more 
> elegant way? Some eclipse internal speciality?
>
> 2.) I can start the plugin which contains the created launch 
> configuration from my development eclipse installation via the 
> "run/debug" launch configuration and my newly created launch 
> configuration is available and working. Now: If I export the plugin as 
> archive and insert this in a new clean eclipse installation the launch 
> configuration is not available. But the eclipse plugin containing the 
> launchconfiguration is present which I found out via the eclipse/about 
> dialog...
>
> I'm wondering about the reason why my launch configuration is not 
> present...

Launch configurations are, well 'configurations', not things in a plugin 
but rather thing created by users.  In the run/debug you -- a user -- 
created a launch configuration. When you start clean install then you -- 
a different user -- have to create one.

You can create one in code by creating a working copy from a 
LaunchConfigurationType, then saving it to disk.

You should look around your disk to find the .launch files and read a 
couple of them, and watch this directory as you create/delete etc.  It 
will make the launch config documentation much clearer.

John.