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

[Diego Tognola <diego@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The example on the 2nd link works with 3.3 but not 3.4M7 - so I guess
there's a change or a  bug. Nevermind and thanks again. I'll do it 
programatically ;-)

Wayne Beaton wrote at Monday 12 May 2008 22:19:

> 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