Who maintains idea/samples directories?

In plugin.xml, the  element

<idea-version since-build="2000" />

causes the plugin to not be valid when opening in the IDE. (Plugin is red in the Plugin manager and cannot be enabled.)

Chaning this to

<idea-version since-build="1" />

fixes that problem.

Although, I don't know what the "since-build" value should actually be here. But 2000 is broken.


Rob

As with the "plugins" project, the "since-build" value of 2000 is causing the plugin to not be loadable in IDEA 9.

This works:

  <idea-version since-build="9000"  />

as does

  <idea-version since-build="1"  />

but I don't know what value to actually use. But clearly 2000 is broken.

Also, in two places in plugins.xml, the "reference" element of  the "group" element has the wrong attribute.

<reference id="ActionsSample.ActionsPlugin.GarbageCollection"/>

should be

<reference ref="ActionsSample.ActionsPlugin.GarbageCollection"/>

and

<reference id="Actions.ActionsPlugin.HelloWorld1"/>

should be

<reference ref="Actions.ActionsPlugin.HelloWorld1"/>



Does anyone from JetBrains read this forum?


Rob

Hello Rob,

The sample plugins have been recently updated, and the master branch contains
up-to-date and working versions of the plugin. We haven't backported the
changes to the maia branch.

This document:

http://confluence.jetbrains.net/display/IDEADEV/GettingStartedwith+P
lugin+Development

States under the header "Sample Plugin":

h4. Sample plugin
A sample plugin that illustrates how to create your own action group
and add it to the main menu and to the main toolbar is available in
the <%IDEA project directory%>/community/samples/actions directory
Please note : there is no "community" directory in the root of the CE
source distribution, but there is a samples directory at the root
level.

In this directory are:

actions
comparingReferences
conditionalOperatorConverter
plugin
toolWindow
vfs
I've thoroughly examined the actions and plugin projects, and can tell
you NEITHER of these work under IDEA 9. In fact, they look like they
were last designed to work with JDK 1.3.

Who maintains the confluence document included above, or these
"sample" projects? Either the projects need to be fixed to actually
work with IDEA 9, or the "getting started" document should be updated
to remove the reference to these obsolete sample files, and the sample
files should be removed from the distribution.

It's frustrating to waste a day wondering what I am doing wrong only
to find out the supposed samples used to teach you to develop plugins
are obsolete and don't work.

Thanks,

Rob

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