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To customize standard Welcome page [message #854149] Mon, 23 April 2012 18:01 Go to next message
Andrey Dulub is currently offline Andrey DulubFriend
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Standard Welcome page contains a few predefined root pages - Overview, First Steps, Tutorials, Samples, What's New, Web Resources, Migrate.
By default, only Overview, Tutorials, Samples, What's New are visible

Two questions:
- can I create custom root page ?
- can I make it visible by default?

Thanks in advance,
Andrey
Re: To customize standard Welcome page [message #854942 is a reply to message #854149] Tue, 24 April 2012 11:34 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Martin Skorsky is currently offline Martin SkorskyFriend
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Use the extension point <extension id="xyz" point="org.eclipse.core.runtime.products">. This allows to set various properties
<property
name="introTitle"
value="%productIntroTitle"/>
<property
name="introBrandingImage"
value="product:icons/nologo.gif"/>
<property
name="introBrandingImageText"
value="%productIntroBrandingText"/>
<property
name="introDescription-overview"
value="%introDescription-overview"/>
<property
name="introDescription-tutorials"
value="%introDescription-tutorials"/>
<property
name="introDescription-samples"
value="%introDescription-samples"/>
<property
name="introDescription-whatsnew"
value="%introDescription-whatsnew"/>


and with product_customization.ini and properties like

# Welcome theme to use
org.eclipse.ui.intro/INTRO_THEME = com.mycompany.eclipse.intro.theme2


you can customize the intro.
Re: To customize standard Welcome page [message #856329 is a reply to message #854942] Wed, 25 April 2012 15:11 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Andrey Dulub is currently offline Andrey DulubFriend
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Thank you for the answer.

Still unclear how to override the standard Welcome.
I mean that I have a plug-in that works within the Eclipse, not RCP app.

Andrey
Re: To customize standard Welcome page [message #857096 is a reply to message #856329] Thu, 26 April 2012 08:39 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Martin Skorsky is currently offline Martin SkorskyFriend
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That's hard.
It would break the old rule: contribute, not replace.
If you are using the product org.eclipse.sdk.ide (which is the default for Eclipse SDK), you can only contribute to the welcome page, not replace it.
Re: To customize standard Welcome page [message #857522 is a reply to message #857096] Thu, 26 April 2012 16:08 Go to previous message
Andrey Dulub is currently offline Andrey DulubFriend
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Yep, that's exactly what I found and just wanted to make sure that I didn't miss something.

Thank you again.
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