[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Features and the AboutDialog...

[Phill_Perryman@xxxxxxxxx]

Please bear with me as I am new to this.
One of the articles I was reading suggested
you create a branding plugin to keep all the branding stuff in so I put
all that into the com.mitel.swb
plugin and tend to refer to that as
the branding plugin, it has the splash, icons etc, obviously the wrong
terminology.

So when the feature asked for a branding
plugin I assumed (wrongly) that it wanted that one. So originally two of
the features pointed to com.mitel.swb
and one I forgot to fill in. It appears
that when the branding plugin is missing from a feature it does not appear
in the feature list. Also if no features have
a branding plugin the feature button
does not appear. I removed all the branding plugins from the features and
exported the product and the feature
button does indeed not appear.

My feature looks like this

<feature
      id="com.mitel.swb.feature"
      label="Sales
Workbench Core"
      version="1.0.0"
      provider-name="Mitel
Corporation"
      plugin="com.mitel.swb">

<feature
      id="com.mitel.rcp.feature"
      label="Sales
Workbench Rich Client"
      version="1.0.0"
      provider-name="Mitel
Corporation"
      plugin="com.mitel.rcp">

I notice your feature
seems to have the same id as the branding plugin, should they not be different.
<feature
       id="myclient.ui"
       label="%featureName"
       version="1.0.0"
       provider-name="%providerName"
       plugin="myclient.ui"

My third feature contains a single fragment
with help for the swb plugin. If I put a branding plugin name in there
then it does appear, I also
get a warning from the feature editor
saying it can't find the plugin (I assume because its a fragment). If I
remove it from the feature then it also disappears
 from the feature  list in
help about. Can't win on that one.


My product file looks like this if it
is any help

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<?pde version="3.1"?>

<product name="Sales Workbench"
id="com.mitel.swb.SalesWorkbench" application="com.mitel.swb.swb"
useFeatures="true">

   <aboutInfo>
      <image path="/com.mitel.swb/images/about.gif"/>
      <text>
         Mitel
Sales Workbench...
      </text>
   </aboutInfo>

   <configIni use="default"/>

   <launcherArgs>
   </launcherArgs>

   <windowImages small="/com.mitel.swb/images/icon16.gif"
large="/com.mitel.swb/images/icon32.gif"/>

   <splash location="com.mitel.swb"/>

   <launcher name="SalesWorkbench">
      <solaris/>
      <win useIco="false">
         <bmp/>
      </win>
   </launcher>

   <plugins>
      <plugin id="org.apache.ant"/>
      <plugin id="org.apache.lucene"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.ant.core"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.core.commands"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.core.expressions"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.core.runtime"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.core.variables"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.help"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.help.appserver"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.help.base"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.help.ui"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.help.webapp"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.jface"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.osgi"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.swt"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.swt.win32.win32.x86"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.tomcat"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.ui"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.ui.forms"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.ui.intro"/>
      <plugin id="org.eclipse.ui.workbench"/>
      <plugin id="swb"/>
   </plugins>

   <features>
      <feature id="com.mitel.rcp.feature"
version="1.0.0"/>
      <feature id="com.mitel.swb.feature"
version="1.0.0"/>
      <feature id="com.mitel.swb.help.feature"
version="1.0.0"/>
   </features>

</product>