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Asked: 2026-05-24T05:38:05+00:00

I’m working on an eclipse plugin that extends an existing plugin. The plugin I

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I’m working on an eclipse plugin that extends an existing plugin. The plugin I am extending defines some default preferences which can be changed at runtime via the preferences menu. I want to have some of those properties changed for the users of my plugin.
For instance: A property in the plugin I’m extending exists that isn’t checked (i.e. false). I want it to be checked for my plugin by default.
How can I do that?

Not a duplicate of Can my Eclipse plugin change preferences from other plugins?, because that question aimed at creating a new prefence page that changes other plugin’s preferences (as far as I understood it). I don’t want to create a new preference page, I simply want to change the default settings.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You need to know the plug-in ID and the preference name, but then the following code should do the trick:

    IPreferenceStore s = new ScopedPreferenceStore(new InstanceScope(), "org.eclipse.ui");

ss.setValue("SHOW_MEMORY_MONITOR", true);

    This exact code will enable the memory monitor in the status bar…

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