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[java] Eclipse: Intro pages

Started by BeanNeophyte Feb 18, 2005 at 12:17 AM 3 replies 1.1k views

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Feb 18, 2005 at 12:17 AM

Hi there, I am new to eclipse and I wonder how you could do a "Welcome" page for a product. I found something about creating intro pages on http://help.eclipse.org/help30/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench_advext_intro.htm but I am not quite sure about the use of it. I wrote my plugin.xml according to this doc, it already speaks with the intro window, but doesn`t display any content. Instead of content I get an error-message "cannot create intro view proxy". Do I have to do write some additional code besides the extension points? Would be nice if you could get me any hint.

Morbo

Feb 18, 2005 at 12:43 AM

You may want to try the Eclipse newsgroups (make sure to search the archives first). They're very active, and you're more likely to find your answer there.

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Feb 20, 2005 at 5:37 AM

Thanks for your advice :)

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BeanNeophyte

Feb 21, 2005 at 12:35 PM

Didn't get any response on this problem in the newsgroup. Maybe one of you knows an tutorial or a better paper about it than the Eclipse documentation.

wolverine

Feb 21, 2005 at 1:03 PM

It's very hard to do better than the Eclipse documentation because it's the most up-to-date thing you'll have for your Eclipse version. Althoug, i must say it, it could be a lot more helpfull (being better organized, for example) for someone doing plug-ins.

I don't really know how to do the thing you asked, but apparently the article talks about a page that will only be displayed the first time you initiate the application. And, apparently, you need to have the html page somewhere in a server (that can be your error).

Another possible (although it might not sute u) approach is to add the wellcome page to the workbench help page. There's a tutorial about that on http://www.eclipse.org/articles/

If the newsgroups don't help u and u exclude the Eclipse help and www.eclipse.org, than i really don't know where u can get that info... i have the (personal) idea that the newsgroups are very friendly and actually that's where i got most of the info when i needed it.

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