[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: Splash Screen Update with Automatic Upda

[Andrew Niefer <aniefer@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Derek,
If the plug-in that contains the splash screen bitmap is in jar form, then the 
splash.bmp is extracted from the jar and cached under the configuration 
directory.  Your problem is that the cache does not get refreshed when you 
update your bundles.  You can force the new version of the bitmap to get picked 
up if you run with -clean.

We also recently fixed this with this bug: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=171701

-Andrew
Derek Knotts wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have deployed a product to my users that has a working splash screen 
> on it.  I have set up an
> automatic update feature on my deployed product to grab any enhancements 
> or fixes that I make
> to the product.  I have made changes to the splash screen and I have 
> deployed it as part of my
> updates.  However, the deployed product grabs the updates but it is 
> still running the old splash
> screen.
>
> It seems the only way I can update the splash screen is to re-deploy the 
> whole product which
> defeats the purpose of the automatic updating.  Does anyone have any 
> ideas how I might be able
> to update the splash screen via automatic updating?
>
> Thanks,
> Derek