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

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Check for misspellings (that always trips me up). 

Did you add the required entry to the product declaration in the
plugin.xml file?

Wayne

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:44 +1000, Diego Tognola wrote:
> 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