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3.3M5 Equinox launcher on Mac OS X [message #463700]

Wed, 14 February 2007 12:26

Eclipse User

I am trying to use the new native laucher in 3.3M5 with my RCP app on Mac
OS X but I can't seem to get it to work correctly. I already had a product
definition that works with 3.3M4. I added 2 equinox launcher plug-ins to
my product definiton and exported the app. The application launches but
there is no dock icon or application menu created.

Looking into the generated application bundle, the info.list file looks a
lot like the old way i.e. uses startup.jar for instance... I may have
missed how to go about migrating my app correctly but any help would be
greatly appreciated...

Thanks,

Ash

Re: 3.3M5 Equinox launcher on Mac OS X [message #463706 is a reply to message #463700]

Wed, 14 February 2007 12:54

Eclipse User

Ash Maurya wrote:
> I am trying to use the new native laucher in 3.3M5 with my RCP app on
> Mac OS X but I can't seem to get it to work correctly. I already had a
> product definition that works with 3.3M4. I added 2 equinox launcher
> plug-ins to my product definiton and exported the app. The application
> launches but there is no dock icon or application menu created.
>
> Looking into the generated application bundle, the info.list file looks
> a lot like the old way i.e. uses startup.jar for instance... I may have
> missed how to go about migrating my app correctly but any help would be
> greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ash
>

Odds are you're missing some new dependencies. Often between milestones
some plugins will get refactored and a new plugin will be created as a
common dependency between several others. Open up your .product file,
go to the plugins tab and click "add required" to see if that helps.

Matthew

Re: 3.3M5 Equinox launcher on Mac OS X [message #463709 is a reply to message #463706]

Wed, 14 February 2007 12:57

Eclipse User

Yeah, I thought of that too and actually created a new product definition
based on a launch configuration where I did what you suggested i.e. Add
required plugins. Exporting and launching resulted in the same behavior -
app up but no dock or menu.

Re: 3.3M5 Equinox launcher on Mac OS X [message #463853 is a reply to message #463700]

Fri, 16 February 2007 17:27

Eclipse User

Ash,
I think you are experiencing this bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174232

Try getting the rcp delta pack and putting it your target. In particular, it
contains a feature org.eclipse.equinox.executable which contains the binary
executables for each platform and for the mac it has plist files that should
work better.

-Andrew
Ash Maurya wrote:
> I am trying to use the new native laucher in 3.3M5 with my RCP app on
> Mac OS X but I can't seem to get it to work correctly. I already had a
> product definition that works with 3.3M4. I added 2 equinox launcher
> plug-ins to my product definiton and exported the app. The application
> launches but there is no dock icon or application menu created.
>
> Looking into the generated application bundle, the info.list file looks
> a lot like the old way i.e. uses startup.jar for instance... I may have
> missed how to go about migrating my app correctly but any help would be
> greatly appreciated...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ash
>

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