[news.eclipse.platform.rcp] Re: How to change default theme ?

[Diego Tognola <diego@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayne Beaton wrote at Monday 12 May 2008 13:15:

> Do these links help?
> 
> http://pookzilla.net/wp/2005/11/themes-howto/
> 
>
http://dev.eclipse.org/blogs/wayne/2007/05/03/scaring-children-with-your-user-interface/
> 
> For the second link, there should be an entry in the
> referenced .settings directory that you can override via a
> preferences.ini file as suggested in the posting (I'm not sure what the
> setting is).
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 12:12 +1000, Diego Tognola wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've created my own theme defined via the org.eclipse.ui.themes
>> extension. Starting the RCP application with a clean workspace, I have to
>> manually change to my theme via the preferences.
>> 
>> Is there a way to change the default theme from 'Default' to my custom
>> theme ?
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Diego

Hi Wayne,

the 2nd link could be an approach - but the 'preferenceCustomization' is
ignored (any hints ??).

I also found an approach that works programatically. Calling the following
from the start(0 of my IApplication works:

IPreferenceStore apiStore = PrefUtil.getAPIPreferenceStore();          
apiStore.setValue(IWorkbenchPreferenceConstants.PRESENTATION_FACTORY_ID,
MyDefaultPresentationFactory.ID);

Thanks
Diego