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Own perspective via Branding-Plugin [message #1747268]

Fri, 11 November 2016 12:56

Alexander Fichtinger

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Registered: January 2013

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Hey guys,

we have the following issue:

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CURRENTLY EXISTING
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We have a Branding-Plugin which contains a plugin_customization.ini file.
This ini-File is specified in the extension point "org.eclipse.core.runtime.products" in the property "preferenceCustomization".

In this plugin_customization.ini file we have defined the default perspective that should be opened when our application launches.

This works all perfectly.

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TO SOLVE / PROBLEM
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Now we have a customer, who wants to open his own perspective, when our application launches.

We already tried to "override" the plugin_customization.ini file via creating an own branding plugin, and in this plugin we created an ini-File with referencing the new Perspective (also located in this plugin).
Also we specified the plugin_customization.ini file in the extension point "org.eclipse.core.runtime.products" in the property "preferenceCustomization" (as we did in our original plugin).

BUT, the whole strategy which I mentioned above, did not work....

Are we on the right way? Or is there an other / better way to achieve this?

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Re: Own perspective via Branding-Plugin [message #1747304 is a reply to message #1747268]

Fri, 11 November 2016 20:04

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Creating your own branding plugin is certainly one approach. You'll need to explicitly launch your app with a -product command-line to specify this new product though. It doesn't override your existing product.

There are alternatives however:

You can specify a revised plugin_customization.ini file with -pluginCustomization on the command-line.

You can specify the default perspective with -perspective argument on the command-line.

You can see the full list of command-line options at the Eclipse Help.

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