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

[Derek Knotts <dknotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you to everyone who commented on this.  I tried running my 
application with the -clean
and it worked beautifully!  I am happy to have this resolved so quickly.

Thanks,
Derek

Andrew Niefer wrote:
> 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