Nilesh D Kapadia

Update: This has been fixed in MyEclipse 7.1.

There is a bug in MyEclipse 7.0 which causes the template configuration preference to quit functioning. When I go into the template configuration, I get a dialog with the heading "Could Not Accept Changes" and the following error message:

The currently displayed page contains invalid values.

And the configuration page is almost completely blank. It just says "Create, edit or remove templates:".

This has been reported at this forum topic and they are aware of the bug. It exists in 7.0 M2 and 7.0 GA. MyEclipse 6.5 (w/ Eclipse 3.3) doesn't have this problem.

Workaround

I use this rather inconvenient workaround to get around this:

My workaround is to use a clean copy of Eclipse (that doesn't have MyEclipse installed) with its own workspace, and edit my custom templates in that copy. Eclipse stores custom templates in this file (along with a lot of other configuration):

ECLIPSE_WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.runtime/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.ui.prefs

So what I do is I copy the line that starts with "org.eclipse.jdt.ui.text.custom_templates=" followed by XML from the clean copy to the one with MyEclipse installed. And restart Eclipse to pick up the change.

If you try this workaround make sure to make a backup of this file before you edit it, just in case something goes wrong.