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csseclipseeclipse-plugineclipse-rcpe4
Nick
Nick

Reputation: 780

External CSS style sheet in Eclipse E4 RCP application

How can I specify a non plugin:/... URI as a style sheet location for the org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.swt.theme plugin?

I tried using file://..., to no avail. Relative paths also do not work, as it is assumed they point within the plugin.

The reason behind this is to allow users of the plugin to customize the stylesheet, without having to unpack>modify>repack the JAR application bundle on their own.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 357

Answers (1)

greg-449
greg-449

Reputation: 111142

Looking at the source of the theme engine if the URI does not start with platform:/plugin/ it is added (with the current plugin id). This is to allow abbreviated URIs but means you can't use any other form.

You can specify that a plugin is not packaged in a jar in the product. If you are using 'features' for the product build specify unpack="true" in the plugin entry in the 'features.xml'

You can also specify

Eclipse-BundleShape: dir

in the plugin's MANIFEST.MF (note this is overridden by the 'unpack' value in the feature.xml if you are using that).

Upvotes: 1

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