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How to detect if launching from eclipse [message #62244]

Tue, 19 May 2009 09:24

Anders Forsell

Messages: 127
Registered: July 2009

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In my OSGi application I'm using a password masking trick which sends
backspaces on a separate thread to hide the password when reading from
System.in.

This works fine when launching my application from a console, but not
within Eclipse.

Is there a way to find out if my application is running within Eclipse?

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Anders

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Re: How to detect if launching from eclipse [message #62700 is a reply to message #62244]

Fri, 22 May 2009 19:14

Andrew Niefer

Messages: 990
Registered: July 2009

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You can try looking for the "eclipse.pde.launcher" system property.

Also the "eclipse.commands" system property should have something like:
-dev
file:C:/Dev/Platform/Workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclips e.pde.core/New_configuration/dev.properties

-Andrew

Anders Forsell wrote:
> In my OSGi application I'm using a password masking trick which sends
> backspaces on a separate thread to hide the password when reading from
> System.in.
>
> This works fine when launching my application from a console, but not
> within Eclipse.
>
> Is there a way to find out if my application is running within Eclipse?
>
> ---
> Anders

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Re: How to detect if launching from eclipse [message #62823 is a reply to message #62700]

Sun, 24 May 2009 06:14

Anders Forsell

Messages: 127
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Thanks Andrew!

I found the "eclipse.launcher" property and check if it ends with
"eclipse.exe".

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Anders
"Andrew Niefer" <aniefer@ca.ibm.com> skrev i meddelandet
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> You can try looking for the "eclipse.pde.launcher" system property.
>
> Also the "eclipse.commands" system property should have something like:
> -dev
> file:C:/Dev/Platform/Workspace/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclips e.pde.core/New_configuration/dev.properties
>
> -Andrew
>
> Anders Forsell wrote:
>> In my OSGi application I'm using a password masking trick which sends
>> backspaces on a separate thread to hide the password when reading from
>> System.in.
>>
>> This works fine when launching my application from a console, but not
>> within Eclipse.
>>
>> Is there a way to find out if my application is running within Eclipse?
>>
>> ---
>> Anders

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