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authormkersten2005-12-09 18:13:31 +0000
committermkersten2005-12-09 18:13:31 +0000
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<a href="http://eclipse.org/mylar/dl.php">http://eclipse.org/mylar/dl.php</a> </p>
<p><b>Contents</b></p>
<ul>
+ <li><a href="#tasklist-blank">Why did my tasks disappear?</a></li>
<li><a href="#install-failure">Why does Mylar fail to install?</a></li>
+ <li><a href="#performance-summary">What are the effects of Mylar on Eclipse performance?</a></li>
<li><a href="#filtering-declarations">How do I stop declarations from showing up in the Package Explorer?</a></li>
<li><a href="#active-search-empty">Why does nothing show up in the Active Search or Active Hierarchy?</a></li>
</ul>
-<h3><a name="install-failure">Why does Mylar fail to install, update, or show my
-tasks?</a></h3>
+<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
+ <h3><a name="install-failure">Why does Mylar fail to install or update?</a></h3>
<p>The most likely reason is that you are using an <b>incompatible VM </b>(e.g. JDK
1.4), in which case you'll errors like the following in your log file.&nbsp; To
check JDK version that Eclipse was launched with to to Help -&gt; About Eclipse SDK
@@ -65,17 +67,53 @@ and after that automatically or manually updating will install the correct
version.</p>
<p>
<img border="0" src="images/faq/eclipse-manage-configuration.gif" width="679" height="335"></p>
+ <p>
+&nbsp;</p>
+<h3><a name="tasklist-blank">Why did my tasks disappear?</a></h3>
+<p>Either because Mylar failed to <a href="#install-failure">install or update</a>,
+or because there was a problem reading the task list.&nbsp; By default Mylar
+keeps your task list in &lt;workspace&gt;/.mylar/tasklist.xml.&nbsp; If you move
+workspaces, and have not changed the Mylar data directory via the Task List
+preference page, the new location will be used when Eclipse restarts.&nbsp; If
+your tasks ever disappear due to a bug, first check the .mylar folder for a
+tasklist-backup.xml file, which will contain the previous state task list.&nbsp;
+Make sure to grab it before adding any tasks or queries or restarting Eclipse
+because it will get overwritten on any modification.</p>
+ <p>If your workspace folder is not backed up it is a good idea to backup the
+ task list periodically via File -&gt; Import/Export -&gt; &nbsp;Other -&gt; Mylar Task
+ Data. Before overwriting the tasklist.xml file you should first close
+ Eclipse.</p>
+ <p>
+ <img border="0" src="images/faq/tasklist-backup.gif" width="525" height="310"></p>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
-<h3><a name="filtering-declarations0">What is the effect of Mylar on Eclipse
+<h3><a name="performance-summary">What are the effects of Mylar on Eclipse
performance?</a></h3>
-<p>...</p>
+<p>The goal is for Mylar to have no noticeable effect on Eclipse's speed or
+memory usage, and any performance issue should be
+<a href="https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=Mylar">reported as
+a bug</a>.&nbsp; The current performance profile is:</p>
+<ol>
+ <li>Mylar only runs if a task is active, and has no impact on Eclipse if no
+ task is active.</li>
+ <li>Task context models have negligible memory overhead.&nbsp; </li>
+ <li>The time to activate a task context is dominated by the time it takes
+ Eclipse to open the editors in the context.&nbsp; You can set the preference
+ for how many editors to open in the Mylar preference page (e.g. setting to 1
+ will dramatically reduce activation time).&nbsp; You can also turn off
+ editor management entirely in the Mylar Tasks view pull-down.</li>
+ <li>Eclipse startup is slowed down by (3) if a task is active when Eclipse
+ is shut down.</li>
+</ol>
<h3>&nbsp;</h3>
- <h3><a name="filtering-declarations">How do I stop declarations from showing up in the Package Explorer?</a></h3>
+<h3><a name="filtering-declarations">How do I stop declarations from showing up in the Package Explorer?</a></h3>
<p>If you don't like Mylar's constant showing of Java members in the
Package Explorer, select the drop-down menu, then &quot;Filters...&quot; and
enable the &quot;Mylar Java Declarations Filter&quot;.&nbsp; It will then
- stick in the menu in case you want to toggle between modes.</p>
+ stick in the menu in case you want to toggle between modes.&nbsp;
+Note that this will hide interest information about members that aren't in your
+current file (e.g. showing you which methods are landmarks) so this mode is not
+recommended, but can be useful for 1024x768 screen resolutions.</p>
<p>
<img border="0" src="images/filtering-declarations.gif" width="441" height="211"></p>
<p>

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