Friday, July 29, 2011

JG1XHO



First signal from JG1XHO-7 from a Pizza place.

When zooming in, you can almost tell which table in the restaurant.







Next morning visited Rocket Radio in Akihabara to get parts for Dipole.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Change Eclipse plugin_customization.ini via feature

Eclipse has an elaborate hierarchical preference mechanism:
  • Plugins have a preferences.ini.
  • The product can override the settings of any plugin via a plugin_customization.ini file
  • Finally you can provide your own defaults via a command-line option -pluginCustomization /path/to/my/settings.ini.
When you create products, you typically include a plugin_customization.ini file in your product.

What if you need to create products with different settings?

Can you put the plugin_customization.ini file into fragments for your product plugin? That doesn't work. Plugin customization.ini files in fragments seem to be ignored.

But here's what you can do: Fake localization.

In your product plugin, have a plugin_customization.ini file that looks like this:

some.plugin/some_setting=%some_value

Then, in a fragment of the product plugin, place a plugin_customization.properties file that contains

some_value=Value A

In another fragment, you can have

some_value=Value B

By loading the appropriate fragments, for example from an update site, you can now install the settings that you want!