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Krasimir Malchev
(56●6●31) Sep 20 '16, 8:28 a.m.

How can I read the values in the Window>Preferences>Team>Jazz Source Control>External Compare Tools preference page?

In particular I am interested to find if the checkbox "Use an external compare tool as the default open action" is selected and the name of the selected 2-way compare tool there.

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Karthik Krishnan
(909●19●130●170) Sep 20 '16, 8:39 a.m.
You can try to export the Eclipse preferences and it should look like below 

/instance/org.eclipse.ui.ide/IMPORT_FILES_AND_FOLDERS_VIRTUAL_FOLDER_MODE=prompt
/instance/com.ibm.team.filesystem.rcp.core/com.ibm.team.filesystem.rcp.core.SandboxListening=true
/instance/com.ibm.team.filesystem.ide.ui/external_compare_tool_merge_executable_path_pref_key_Beyond\ Compare=C\:\\Program Files\\Beyond Compare 4\\BComp.exe
/instance/com.ibm.team.filesystem.ide.ui/external_compare_previously_selected_compare_tool=Beyond Compare
/instance/com.ibm.team.filesystem.ide.ui/external_compare_default_tool_preference_key=true
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Krasimir Malchev
Sep 20 '16, 10:19 a.m.
Hello Karthik.    Thanks for your answer!    Indeed, I exported the preferences: File>Export>General>Preferences    From the dump I found the node ids I was interested in    I saw that there are several types of preferences (instance, configuration, etc. A nice tutorial can be found here: http://www.vogella.com/tutorials/EclipsePreferences/article.html).      // org.eclipse.core.runtime.preferences       InstanceScope instScope = InstanceScope.INSTANCE;       IEclipsePreferences extCmpToolNode =           instScope.getNode( "com.ibm.team.filesystem.ide.ui" );       boolean openExtCmpToolByDefault = extCmpToolNode.getBoolean(                              "external_compare_default_tool_preference_key", false);

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