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plugin.properties mechanism not working? [message #559718]

Fri, 17 September 2010 16:51

Nicolai Czempin

Messages: 21
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I want to display text from an external file (possibly internationalized) in the about box of an RCP application.

Apparently (as intensive Googling has led me to believe) one can achieve this by adding a (or changing the) property "aboutText" with a value that has a prefix '%' that will be dereferenced from the plugin.properties file, like this:

plugin.xml:

 <extension
         id="product"
         point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.products">
      <product
            application="com.example.application"
            name="RCP Product">
         <property
               name="aboutText"
               value="%aboutText">
         </property>
         <property
               name="windowImages"
               value="icons/sample2.gif">
         </property>
         <property
               name="aboutImage"
               value="product_lg.gif">
         </property>
      </product>
   </extension>

plugin.properties:

aboutText=This is HelloWorld\n\
\n\
Version 1.0

1. I used the "new Plug-In Project" to generate the RCP Mail Application.
2. I changed the value of the "aboutText" property to "%aboutText".
3. I added a file plugin.properties as above.
4. When I run the product and open the About Box, the text "%aboutText" is shown instead of the expected dereferenced text from the plugin.properties file.

I tried this with a vanilla 3.5.1 Eclipse IDE as well as a more featured Yoxos-based 3.6 installation, with the same results.

I also tried it with a separate "something.product" file, which didn't help.

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Is my expectation about the behaviour wrong?
Or can someone confirm that they see this behaviour, and that this may perhaps be a bug in Eclipse (RCP/PDE/...?)?
Or does going through the above steps work for you?

Thanks for reading this far,
Nicolai Czempin

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Re: plugin.properties mechanism not working? [message #644803 is a reply to message #559718]

Tue, 14 December 2010 09:49

Juergen Weber

Messages: 65
Registered: July 2009

Member

Try to put
Bundle-Localization: plugin
into MANIFEST.MF in the plugin editor.

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Re: plugin.properties mechanism not working? [message #644813 is a reply to message #644803]

Tue, 14 December 2010 10:14

Wim Jongman

Messages: 493
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

and don't forget to include the file in the build.properties

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Re: plugin.properties mechanism not working? [message #644825 is a reply to message #644813]

Tue, 14 December 2010 10:17

Thomas Schindl

Messages: 6651
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

or put your file in the default location OSGI-INF/l10n/bundle.properties
and naturally as Wim said don't forget to add it to the build.properties

Tom

Am 14.12.10 11:14, schrieb Wim Jongman:
> and don't forget to include the file in the build.properties

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