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Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 24765

Custom about dialogs in Eclipse applications

I have an Eclipse workbench application composed of many plugins. I'd like to set the about text of the app to reflect the build number.

There seems to be a couple of places to do this: - Inside the application's .product file (setting text here doesn't seem to do anything?) - Inside the plugin.xml file of the main plugin (this does seem to work).

I have two questions:

  1. What is the best way to achieve this? via plugin.xml?
  2. Why is the text I set in the product file ignored?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 903

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323453

It (text and picture of an about dialog) should be in the about.ini of a feature or product plugin.

Branding, after www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-ecfeat/branding.jpg

Note: for the picture, this blog entry "How Can I Give My Eclipse Blob An Icon In The Flippin’ About Dialog?" is quite nice.

Notebis: with the latest 3.5Mx releases, the about box is even more configurable.

Upvotes: 4

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