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how to branding features [message #329067]

Wed, 11 June 2008 16:21

Eclipse User

Hi,

I know that eclipse provides tool to support product configuration to
support product's branding. The condition of doing product's branding is
to have at least one application created. Since we do not develop a
standalone application instead just offer plugins. We group plugins into
features. How could we branding features in eclipse 3.3?

thanks
hao

Re: how to branding features [message #329077 is a reply to message #329067]

Thu, 12 June 2008 03:28

Eclipse User

Hi,

I spent a lot of time few weeks ago in order to get my feature displayed
in the Help -> About -> Feature Details dialog.

Here is the solution to this problem :

+ To have a feature displayed in this dialog you need to define a
Branding plug-in for that feature in the feature.xml file.
Note : If no Branding plug-in is specified Eclipse will look for a
Branding plug-in with the same ID than the features ID.
This solution is used by most of the Eclipse's features.
For example the GEF feature's id is org.eclipse.gef and the
org.eclipse.gef plug-in contains branding informations.

+ In this plug-in there must be a about.ini, about.properties and
about.mapping files. Other files may be present to allow further
customizations.

For more informations on these files and there content you can look the
Eclipse Help here:

http://help.eclipse.org/help33/topic/org.eclipse.platform.do c.isv/guide/product_configfeature.htm?resultof=%22%61%62%6f% 75%74%2e%69%6e%69%22%20.

Hope this can help

Manu

Re: how to branding features [message #329097 is a reply to message #329077]

Thu, 12 June 2008 11:47

Eclipse User

>I spent a lot of time few weeks ago in order to get my feature displayed in
the Help -> About -> Feature Details dialog.

Thanks a lot.

hao

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