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Bug 356538

Summary:	Description field in project template page needs to support bullets and bold
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Will Smythe <smythew>
Component:	EDT	Assignee:	Will Smythe <smythew>
Status:	CLOSED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	chenzhh
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
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Description Will Smythe

2011-09-01 22:27:56 EDT

Like the PDE New Plug-in wizard, the description field for EGL project template page needs to support bullets and bolded text. This will help improve the readability/understandability of the template description. For example, the description for the Basic template may be:

==========

Creates a basic project for developing EGL programs, services, and libraries. The project can be configured to generate to multiple target languages.

Typical usages:

* Batch (command line) programs
* Common libraries and records
* Web services
* Data access services and libraries
* Basic handlers

==========

In this example, "typical usages" may be bolded and the list items will need bullets instead of asterisks.

This is important since it's one of the first things new users will see.

Comment 1 Will Smythe

2011-09-01 22:30:13 EDT

The descriptions for PDE plug-in templates are stored in a standard properties file:

pluginContent.view.name = Plug-in with a view
pluginContent.view.description=\
<p>This wizard creates standard plug-in directory structure and \
adds the following:</p>\
<li><b>Sample view</b>. %template.view.desc%</li>\
<p><b>Extensions Used</b></p>\
<li>org.eclipse.ui.views</li>\
<li>org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions</li>\
<li>org.eclipse.help.contexts</li>

Note the use of HTML tags. The "description" field on the page is not a Browser (as far as I can tell), so they must parse the text and handle certain tags (p, li, b at a minimum).

If a StyledText SWT widget is being used here, the following example may be useful: http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.swt.git/tree/examples/org.eclipse.swt.snippets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet222.java

Comment 2 Huang Ji Yong

2011-09-14 23:00:21 EDT

Hi Will,
I think you have completed this work item.
Reassign to you. Please commit your changes.
Thanks.

Comment 3 Lisa Lasher

2011-09-21 16:19:22 EDT

Rolling forward to I-15

Comment 4 Will Smythe

2011-09-21 16:53:10 EDT

Fixed in 9/21 build.

Comment 5 Will Smythe

2011-11-02 00:36:55 EDT

Looks good.