Eclipse EditorList Plug-in / News: Recent posts

This release moves the EditorList plugin to full Eclipse 3.1 compatibility.

It fixes a few bugs that showed up on Eclipse 3.1 and also cleans up all warnings from internal references and deprecations. This release is intended to be run on the Eclipse 3.1 release, but is believed to be 100% compatible with Eclipse 3.0.x releases.

NOTE: There was a major bug in yesterday's release of version 1.0.6. The 1.0.7 release fixes that bug (bug 1252033).

In previous versions of the EditorList plug-in, the decorator support was flaky at best. This release fixes the problem (see Bug 738358).

Editors now consistently render the enabled decorators for their underlying file. In the Eclipse 3.0 stream, label decorators are configured on the "Workbench->Label Decorations" preference page.

The EditorList plug-in has a problem at startup in Eclipse 2.1 RC0. With build 1.0.3, an exception occurred during view initialization.

This release works around the problem by calling a different (more reliable) API.

I added a project for the EditorList Plug-in to Freshmeat yesterday. Those of you who use Freshmeat may want to subscribe there. Feel free to rate the project there as well. :-)

http://freshmeat.net/projects/editorlist

I've uploaded build 1.0.3, which fixes the backwards compatibility problem. The EditorList plug-in works with Eclipse 2.0 again.

I uploaded build 1.0.2 yesterday. This build introduces a preference page that allows users to turn off the resource-based features of the EditorList view. This gives users the option of using the view without the potential startup penalty incurred by the resource-based features.

This morning I discovered that the 1.0.2 build references a method that only exists in the Eclipse 2.1 stream, making the preference page incompatible with Eclipse 2.0. I have a fix checked into CVS and I'll be uploading a new build a.s.a.p.

The EditorList plug-in can now be installed via Eclipse Install/Update. The site URL is http://editorlist.sourceforge.net/site

The 1.0.1 release is now available. This minor release includes a few bug fixes, most notably, it fixes the broken icon problem with the Eclipse 20021204 build. I've also switched to an x.x.x naming scheme to better conform to Eclipse standards.

If you install the EditorList in the 20021204 Eclipse Integration build, the icon to sort the list alphabetically will not appear. This will be fixed in the next release of the EditorList.

Also, the Eclipse UI team has implemented their own version of this plug-in from scratch. They copied my icon and the view title, so the views are currently indistinguishable under "Show View->Other...->Basic". I plan to fix this in the next release of the EditorList plug-in by changing the label of the original version to "Editor List". For now, the first view labeled "Editors" is this plug-in's version.

I uploaded the first public release of the EditorList plug-in today.

For a list of features supported in the EditorList, see the release notes.

To install the plug-in, unzip the EditorList.zip archive to the Eclipse plugins directory. When you launch Eclipse, there will be a new view listed under "Basic" labelled "Editors".

The EditorList plug-in has been tested with Eclipse 2.0 and the latest Eclipse 2.1 builds.