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

[Daniel Krügler <dsp@xxxxxxx>]

Peter Manahan wrote:
> It obviously not clear. The feature "branding" plugin is a plugin that 
> is used to "brand" the feature (ie icon, name etc in the about ). This 
> is not product branding which also can add content to the about for the 
> "product". The only way to get content loaded at runtime is via a plugin 
> (so you can use fragments for localization etc). So for features to show 
> up in the about dialog they need a plugin to host that information.
>
> I normally just create a plugin with the same id as the feature which by 
> default becomes the branding plugin for that feature. But if you don't 
> want to do that you can put the feature branding information in a plugin 
> with a different id and then use the "plugin=" attribute of the feature.

I **assume** that I walked the second way: My fragment looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feature
      id="myclient.ui"
      label="%featureName"
      version="1.0.0"
      provider-name="%providerName"
      plugin="myclient.ui"
      os="win32"
      ws="win32">
...

my plugin containing splash.bmp, .product file, 
plugin_customization.ini, about.mappings, which I called the "branding 
plugin" looks like that:

Manifest-Version: 1.0
Bundle-ManifestVersion: 2
Bundle-Name: %plugin-name
Bundle-SymbolicName: myclient.ui; singleton:=true

and the .product file, based on features now:

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

<product name="%product-name" id="myclient.ui.ide" 
application="myclient.ui.that_app" useFeatures="true">
...

   <features>
      <feature id="myclient.ui" version="1.0.0"/>
   </features>

</product>


So do you think, that this method is invalid? (I noticed, that
the same technique was used in the org.eclipse.rcp feature, where
(branding) plugin and id are the same), see:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<feature
      id="org.eclipse.rcp"
      label="%featureName"
      version="3.1.1"
      provider-name="%providerName"
      plugin="org.eclipse.rcp"
      image="eclipse_update_120.jpg">


Thanks for your interest,

Daniel