Re: [equinox-dev] [launcher] Showsplash

[James D Miles <jdmiles@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes we could do something like that but we need it to change it based on nl.

We currently have about 600K bmp for each language specific splash screen that we provide. So what would be better is if we could write the actual text in the SWTsplash window with the progress monitor. Then we would only need one bmp.

Jeff McAffer <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>

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alternatively is it possible to have the installer configure the 
launcher with the right splash?  of course that assumes that the NL is 
fixed from install time.  Just a thought

Jeff

Andrew Niefer wrote:
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> James,
> The native code that is showing the early splash screen does not have 
> support to change the bitmap that is being shown.  This means that you 
> need to wait until swt is available before it can be refreshed.  With 
> SWT I believe changing the image is just setting the BackgroundImage 
> on the shell.  The simplest way of contributing SWT to the splash 
> screen is to use the workbench org.eclipse.ui.splashHandlers extension 
> point and extend the EclipseSplashHandler class.
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> The only problem is that the code that handles the osgi.splashPath and 
> searches for NL variants (Main.getSplashLocation & 
> Main.searchForSplash) is not available available outside of Main.  You 
> will probably have to do that search yourself.
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> By using the -showsplash I can get an early splash screen. However 
> when not using this mechanism we were able to set osgi.splashPath with 
> a comma separated list of URLs. We still need the splash selection 
> based on nl that we got when using osgi.splashPath. How can we get the 
> splashpath bmp refreshed after early startup? The default behavior 
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