Chapter 13 errata
Page 188 — The third step says to use the filter box to find the Help feature. Due to a bug in the way PDE works, doing this can sometimes cause other, previously selected features to be unselected....
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Page 203 — The Multi-User Chat (MUC) feature mentioned in this discussion is an example only. The sample code does not include such a feature. Page 208 — The features to be included in the Hyperbola...
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I just uploaded a new version of the Eclipse RCP book second edition sample code. You can connect to the software site (http://eclipsercp.org) and updating your current Samples Manager or installing...
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Page 402 — The Target Export wizard was added in Eclipse 3.6. People developing for 3.5.x can move to 3.6 since you have a distinct Target definition. That’s the point of target platforms....
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Page 117 — In Figure 8-2 the product ID (top text box) is show an “org.eclipsercp.hyperbola”. This works fine in the sample for Chapter 8 but in subsequent chapters where building with p2 metadata is...
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Page 131 — In Chapter 8 we defined the Hyperbola product and set its ID. Unfortunately on page 117 of the first printing we suggested using “org.eclipsercp.hyperbola” for the product ID. In Chapter 9...
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Several people have requested that the samples for the 1st Edition of the Eclipse RCP book be made available. So, by popular demand, we have put a zipped update site on the downloads page. Note that...
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Page 265 — Figure 17-1 includes a number of Java code lines involving String literals. It appears that a number of the ” (quote) characters were converted to ? (question mark) characters during the...
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Page 52 — The snippet of Application code incorrectly shows the old Eclipse application run() method. The best practice for defining applications is now to implement IApplication which requires a...
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Page 40 — The list of steps for adding the Delta Pack to your target suggests adding the directory ${workspace_loc}/HyperbolaTarget/delta.pack to your target definition. If in fact you followed the...
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