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

[Wayne Beaton <wayne@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

You would do the community a big favour by reporting this (apparent)
bug.

Wayne

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 22:34 +1000, Diego Tognola wrote:
> 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
>