[news.eclipse.technology.equinox] Re: Why does the director spin off in

[Ben Vitale <bsv@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks. Related to that, I found this wiki page, which was helpful.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Equinox_Launcher_Issues

Cheers
Ben

Jacek Pospychala wrote:
> Ben Vitale pisze:
> > When I run the director app from the command line on Windows, it shows 
> > the splash screen, but immediately returns control to the DOS prompt.
> >
> > As such, I have no way to know when the operation is complete, unless 
> > I leave the splash screen in focus until it goes away.
> >
> > What is the reasoning behind this? Is there a way to run it "modal"?
>
> that's how eclipse.exe works - it chooses usually jvm.dll or javaw.exe 
> rather than java.exe and they work like that.
>
> try using eclipsec.exe and make sure there's no -vm args in eclipse.ini