[papyrus-rt-dev] UML Real-Time preference pages

[Christian Damus <give.a.damus@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, Team,

I observe that, so far, Papyrus-RT contributes no preference pages apart from those that are generated by Xtext for the xtUML-RT language (labeled as “Umlrt" [sic] in the preference dialog).

I have a need for addition of a new preference page, so I would like to discuss the presentation.  In the refactoring of a simple state into a composite state, I want to prompt the user for confirmation on double-clicking a state, with the usual “don’t ask again” check box.  To that end, a preference will be needed to restore the prompting.

I propose a new preference page hierarchy as follows:

• UML Real-Time    <— top-level page for all Papyrus-RT preference pages

Pretty simple, hunh?  😉

For now, the top “UML Real-Time” preference page would have only the dialog settings button as in JDT:

except, of course, titled “UML Real-Time dialogs”.  There would be a new API in which each dialog’s preference key is registered to be managed by this Clear button.

Comments?  Votes?

Thanks,

Christian