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Native splash screen? [message #445725]

Wed, 10 November 2004 04:58

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: williams.russell.williamsr.net

Folks,

I am wondering how eclipse splash screen work?
I think it is a native splash screen. Is there an article or readme file
about this?

Thanx

William

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Re: Native splash screen? [message #445743 is a reply to message #445725]

Wed, 10 November 2004 14:40

Christophe Cornu

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> I think it is a native splash screen
Yes. It's in the platform-launcher project.
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/platform-launcher/l ibrary/

Chris

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Re: Native splash screen? [message #446162 is a reply to message #445725]

Thu, 18 November 2004 09:29

Andre Weinand

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On 10.11.2004 5:58 Uhr, in article cms6qp$edv$1@eclipse.org, "williams"
<williams.russell@williamsr.net> wrote:

> Folks,
>
> I am wondering how eclipse splash screen work?
> I think it is a native splash screen.

Yes.

> Is there an article or readme file
> about this?

No, I don't think so.
But IIRC it works as follows:

The Eclipse launcher "eclipse.exe" is used to display the splash screen (in
addition to its normal duties of launching the JVM).

The tricky thing about the splash screen is that eclipse.exe does not know
what image to show as a Splash screen, since this image is contributed via
some higher-level Eclipse/Java mechanism.

To circumvent this problem eclipse.exe passes itself as an argument to the
Eclipse Java program. Then the splash image is determined (in Java land) and
the executable "eclipse.exe" is used to display the image. After Eclipse has
finished its startup sequence the second instance of eclipse.exe is killed.

So this results in the following hierarchical process structure:

eclipse.exe
/usr/bin/java -cp startup.jar EclipseMain -splash "eclipse.exe"
eclipse.exe "some splash screen image"

Hth,
--andre

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Re: Native splash screen? [message #446877 is a reply to message #446162]

Sat, 04 December 2004 15:21

Ben Clarke

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> eclipse.exe
> /usr/bin/java -cp startup.jar EclipseMain -splash "eclipse.exe"
> eclipse.exe "some splash screen image"

Stick to one operating system per example

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Re: Native splash screen? [message #446957 is a reply to message #446877]

Tue, 07 December 2004 11:09

Andre Weinand

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Registered: July 2009

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On 4.12.2004 16:21 Uhr, in article cosklu$hcj$1@www.eclipse.org, "Ben
Clarke" <rod.parfait@gmail.com> wrote:

>> eclipse.exe
>> /usr/bin/java -cp startup.jar EclipseMain -splash "eclipse.exe"
>> eclipse.exe "some splash screen image"
>
> Stick to one operating system per example

Try to abstract

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