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Triquetrum/Releng/Welcome Pages
< Triquetrum | Releng
Revision as of 23:43, 6 June 2017 by Unnamed Poltroon (Talk) (Start on how to add things to the Welcome page.)
[| Issue #169 Create Welcome Support] wants us to add Welcome Page support.
Unfortunately, modifying the Welcome Page is not well documented. Below are some references
Resources
- [| How to contribute to welcome] (bioclipse.net) In the end, this was the page that helped the most.
- [| Platform Plug-in Developer Guide > Programmer's Guide > User assistance support > Welcome] (eclipse.org) Light on the details, but helpful
Types of Welcome
The Programmer's Guide (see above) outlines a few different approaches
It seems that Universal intro is more modern and preferred because it allows plugins to add to the pages.
Stumbling Blocks
One issue is that Triquetrum has a [| org.eclipse.triquetrum.repository/Triquetrum.product], which defines how to invoke Triquetrum, but the Welcome documentation does not really cover that.
When editing org.eclipse.triquetrum.repository/Triquetrum.product, the Branding tab has a Welcome Page section, which we set to org.eclipse.ui.intro.universal: