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How enable only my plugin at eclipse startup? [message #206469]

Fri, 05 March 2004 05:25

Eclipse User

Hi,
I have written my own eclipse plugins and I would like this plugin as
default plugin when Eclipse startup. How can I do that without refactoring
eclipse ?
If there is no way to do that, how can I enable my plugin at startup ?
Is there a plugins boot list somewhere ?
Sorry if this is not the good newsgroup for such a question !

Thanks.

Re: How enable only my plugin at eclipse startup? [message #206538 is a reply to message #206469]

Fri, 05 March 2004 09:20

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: manahan.NOSPAM.ca.ibm.com

What do you mean by default plugin at startup? Are you writing an tool
for eclipse or a complete product based on eclipse? The answer changes
depending upon what you want to do.

Peter

strus wrote:
> Hi,
> I have written my own eclipse plugins and I would like this plugin as
> default plugin when Eclipse startup. How can I do that without refactoring
> eclipse ?
> If there is no way to do that, how can I enable my plugin at startup ?
> Is there a plugins boot list somewhere ?
> Sorry if this is not the good newsgroup for such a question !
>
> Thanks.
>

Re: How enable only my plugin at eclipse startup? [message #206570 is a reply to message #206469]

Fri, 05 March 2004 10:13

Eclipse User

You can edit the list of plugins through the platform.xml (in 3.0 M8) or
platform.cfg (up to 3.0 M8). You would want to set the policy to
USER-INCLUDE and put your plugin in the list attribute of the site
element. I have a feature request concerning simplifying this at:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=53858

strus wrote:

> Hi,
> I have written my own eclipse plugins and I would like this plugin as
> default plugin when Eclipse startup. How can I do that without refactoring
> eclipse ?
> If there is no way to do that, how can I enable my plugin at startup ?
> Is there a plugins boot list somewhere ?
> Sorry if this is not the good newsgroup for such a question !

> Thanks.

Re: How enable only my plugin at eclipse startup? [message #206644 is a reply to message #206538]

Fri, 05 March 2004 12:05

Eclipse User

Peter Manahan a écrit :
> What do you mean by default plugin at startup? Are you writing an tool
> for eclipse or a complete product based on eclipse? The answer changes
> depending upon what you want to do.
>
>
> Peter
>
> strus wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have written my own eclipse plugins and I would like this plugin as
>> default plugin when Eclipse startup. How can I do that without
>> refactoring
>> eclipse ?
>> If there is no way to do that, how can I enable my plugin at startup ?
>> Is there a plugins boot list somewhere ?
>> Sorry if this is not the good newsgroup for such a question !
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>
I am writting a plugin with a view and perspective and I would like to
enable this perspective at eclipse startup. So the user do not have to
search the plugin in the perspective list.
Thanks.

Re: How enable only my plugin at eclipse startup? [message #206649 is a reply to message #206570]

Fri, 05 March 2004 12:09

Eclipse User

Stephen Goldbaum a écrit :

> You can edit the list of plugins through the platform.xml (in 3.0 M8) or
> platform.cfg (up to 3.0 M8). You would want to set the policy to
> USER-INCLUDE and put your plugin in the list attribute of the site
> element. I have a feature request concerning simplifying this at:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=53858
>
> strus wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>I have written my own eclipse plugins and I would like this plugin as
>>default plugin when Eclipse startup. How can I do that without refactoring
>>eclipse ?
>>If there is no way to do that, how can I enable my plugin at startup ?
>>Is there a plugins boot list somewhere ?
>>Sorry if this is not the good newsgroup for such a question !
>
>
>>Thanks.
>
>
>
The issue I see with this solution is that the platform.cfg file is
generated in the .metadata file. So the user has to launch eclipse 1
time then modify the cfg file ... It is not user friendly.
I would prefer do that programmatically in the code of my plugin !

Re: How enable only my plugin at eclipse startup? [message #206716 is a reply to message #206644]

Fri, 05 March 2004 14:38

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: manahan.NOSPAM.ca.ibm.com

strus wrote:

> I am writting a plugin with a view and perspective and I would like to
> enable this perspective at eclipse startup. So the user do not have to
> search the plugin in the perspective list.
> Thanks.
>

So in this case its a tool not a product (product implies you ship your
own version of eclipse and can control its launch).

There isn't anyway way to do it as an extension to an eclipse instance
currently.

If what you want to provide is information on the nifty new plugin they
just installed you can use a welcome page. Search the help for
"welcome page".

Peter

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