Adso support? Not really…doh!

November 1st, 2005

I got an email from Stephan Hodges today and among one of his many comments, he mentions that the switching database function doesn’t work.

“What? I know I tested that!” I said to myself. I install from the latest installer and sure enough, switching the database doesn’t seem to work. “Crap!” I know I did a test so I tried again, but this time from within Eclipse. Of course that works. “What the?!?”

I spend a couple of hours trying to figure what went wrong. I know it’s gotta be a stupid mistake. I see the database preference has been persisted to the preference file, but the stupid app isn’t loading that value when deployed. I’m having no luck with everything I try and I’m extremely frustrated. Somehow I think to myself, “maybe I should search the Eclipse newsgroups”. So I type in “preferencestore & default” and *ding ding ding*, I hit this thread which describes my exact problem: http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/m91921544.html which also points to this bug report:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=86750

The fix is actually quite easy and it wasn’t my fault! Well, except for the crappy testing. I want to make a 0.4.1 release very soon. But I also want to include a fix for the dictionary search bug where you can’t search for definitions that contain more than one word. I hope to get something out over the next few days. Until then, you’ll need to stick with the default Cedict dictionary. Sorry.

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