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| Preferences</h3> |
| Purpose: To test the Preferences in Eclipse. We will open the Preferences |
| dialog, select some pages, change and apply preferences, verify their affect, |
| and test persistence between sessions. |
| <p>Setup: |
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| Install Eclipse Platform.</li> |
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| Method: |
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| Start the workbench.</li> |
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| Invoke Window > Preferences and verify that the Preferences dialog appears. |
| Click on all of the items in the left hand viewer to demonstrate that each |
| item has a valid page and no exceptions occur in their creation. |
| Now close the dialog.</li> |
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| The behavior of the workbench can be customized using the preferences. |
| To see this in action we will examine various preferences which ship with |
| Eclipse.</li> |
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| The selection in the navigator is linked to the active editor. Open |
| a couple of files. Then switch between the editors and watch how |
| the input for the active editor is selected in the navigator. You |
| can disable this option in the Preferences. To do this ..</li> |
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| Open the preferences dialog.</li> |
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| Turning off "Link navigator selection to active editor" in the workbench |
| preferences.</li> |
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| Press OK. The dialog should close.</li> |
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| Now switch between the editors. Notice that the selection in the |
| navigator does not change.</li> |
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| The Perspective > Open menu action can also be customized. By default |
| this action will open a new perspective in the current window. You |
| can change this to "open in new window" or "replace other". To see |
| this behavior ..</li> |
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| Open the preferences dialog. Change the workbench preferences for |
| "Open Perspective" to "Open in New Window". Then press OK</li> |
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| Invoke Perspective > Open > Java. Notice how a new window is created |
| for the perspective. The list of open windows is shown in the Window |
| menu. Select these items to switch between the windows.</li> |
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| If you don't like the current preferences you can reset them. Open |
| the preferences dialog again. To reset the state of "Link navigator |
| .." and "Open Perspective .." press the Restore Defaults button. |
| If you press OK the options will be saved. However, let's assume |
| that you decide not to change them. Press Cancel. Then verify |
| that the deviant options have not been restored to default by switching |
| between editors and opening a new perspective.</li> |
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| Invoke File > Exit. Then restart the workbench.</li> |
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| Open the preferences dialog and confirm tha "Link navigator .. " and "Open |
| Perspective .." still reflect the customized values. The workbench |
| will automatically save your preferences between sessions.</li> |
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