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Custom program launcher options? [message #864936]

Mon, 30 April 2012 06:36

Klara Ward

Messages: 14
Registered: July 2009

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Is there a way to create custom options for your program launcher (aka eclipse.exe/myapp.exe) ?

We're currently using our own main class that parses all options before calling org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.Main.

I'd like to add options like -help, -version (both of which will print some short info and then terminating) and -showversion that prints version info and then continues.

Using the eclipse launcher would be nice because we get 'restart after installing plugins' functionality.

Is this at all possible to achieve?

Klara,
Java Mission Control

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Re: Custom program launcher options? [message #869287 is a reply to message #864936]

Thu, 03 May 2012 07:20

Klara Ward

Messages: 14
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I'll answer my own questions:

Use org.eclipse.core.runtime.Platform.getApplicationArgs() "Returns the arguments not consumed by the framework implementation itself."
I added parsing of arguments to my IApplication implementation.

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