[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Preferences not getting initialized to defaults

["Todd Chambery" <chambery_no_spam_@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks!  It took me a while to get around to fixing this, but your
suggestion worked perfectly.

Todd


"Paul T. Keyser" <rolarenfan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:3E564CB3.2371CE91@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Here is what I did, and I never had the problem -- once I did all of the
> following.  Maybe this helps you?
>
> a) your plugin should have a class anyway that extends AbstractUIPlugin;
in
> that class override the method
>     protected void initializeDefaultPreferences (final IPreferenceStore
> store) ;
> and for each page that you have added to the Preferenhces (details below)
use
> that IPreferenceStore to init the items on that page.
>
> b) each page you add to the Preferences should extend PreferencePage and
> implement IWorkbenchPreferencePage; in each such page, I recommend adding
a
> static method, that you call in step a, with the IPreferenceStore
parameter;
> this static method will then handle all data for its page.
>
> c) you will have some way of defining a "preference item" (each check box
or
> string value or whatever: I invented my own interface); however you do it,
> each such item should have a corresponding set of statics (method and tag
and
> value) that you use in step b to tell Eclipse what the default value of
that
> preference item is, using the same IPreferenceStore, like this:
>     store.setDefault(TAG, DEFAULT_VALUE);
> (IPreferenceStore's has many overloaded instance methods called
setDefault())
>
> HTH,
> Paul K
>
>
> Todd Chambery wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > My plugin uses preference pages that are not initialized to their
default
> > values until the actual pref page is viewed.  Consequently, I'm getting
> > empty data for the preference lookup.
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this behavior?
> >
> > Todd
>