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Tue, 13 February 2007 02:34

Eclipse User

Hi All,
We want to display our login dialog just before the splash screen
starts up...so, how to stop the splash screen at the startup and once the
user logins, we want to bring up our splash screen..how to go about it?

Thanks,
Aravind

Re: Splash Screen [message #463623 is a reply to message #463519]

Tue, 13 February 2007 15:17

Eclipse User

You can't do that without changing the Eclipse executable.
The splash screen starts before starting the JVM.
You can also make your login dialog as a separate application that will
start Eclipse.

Snjeza

Aravind wrote:
> Hi All,
> We want to display our login dialog just before the splash screen
> starts up...so, how to stop the splash screen at the startup and once
> the user logins, we want to bring up our splash screen..how to go about it?
>
> Thanks,
> Aravind
>

Re: Splash Screen [message #463645 is a reply to message #463623]

Tue, 13 February 2007 23:14

Eclipse User

Is there any way I can stop the splash screen after exporting my
product...by making any changes in config.ini or
plugin_customization.ini..I have also tried using Platform.endSplash() but
it isn't working....so, how to use my login dialog as my main
application...any way when i launch an application it will look for the
default application class in my project...how to change this?

Re: Splash Screen [message #463680 is a reply to message #463645]

Wed, 14 February 2007 10:49

Eclipse User

Aravind, you can turn off the splash screen by adding -nosplash in your
eclipse.ini file (product.ini if its branded).

Whether or not the splash comes up before the VM is started depends on how the
VM is going to be run. If we can embed it in-process, then we can display the
splash first, if we are running it in a separate process, then the splash
happens after the vm is started.

We are currently actively working on the launcher and splash screen. It is now
possible to put SWT widgets in the splash screen. You might want to consider
actually embedding your login in the splash screen itself. The details and
difficulty of this would depend on how early you need your login.

See these 2 wiki pages for some dtails:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Equinox_Launcher
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Equinox_Launcher_Plan

-Andrew
Aravind wrote:
> Is there any way I can stop the splash screen after exporting my
> product...by making any changes in config.ini or
> plugin_customization.ini..I have also tried using Platform.endSplash()
> but it isn't working....so, how to use my login dialog as my main
> application...any way when i launch an application it will look for the
> default application class in my project...how to change this?
>

Re: Splash Screen [message #463726 is a reply to message #463680]

Thu, 15 February 2007 01:37

Eclipse User

Thanks for that...now i'am able to stop the splash screen...we are
thinking of whether to put login components on the splash screen....but as
of now whether i can have my login dialog class which is extending Dialog
as my main application?so, that when i launch my product this login dialog
class should be invoked and opened..after the user clicks the login
button..i should bring up the splash screen...?

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