Re: [udig-devel] udig splash screen

[Jody Garnett <jody.garnett@xxxxxxxxx>]

Found a user with a similar problem:

- http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.platform.rcp/msg34788.html

They got the following advice from Andrew Niefer :

These properties will only be set if the launcher bundle was able to get the splash screen displayed. If they aren't set, then I see a few possiblities:

1) -showsplash was not passed as an argument to Main. The eclipse.exe will automatically set this argument unless -nosplash is specified on the command line. If you were starting just using java -jar, then you need to say -showsplash.


2) We couldn't find the splash.bmp. Check the system property osgi.splashLocation which should be set when we find the bitmap..getting set to the same thing as org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.splash.location
If the splash.bmp is in a jar, we need to be successful in extracting it to the configuration folder.

3) We couldn't load the native shared library from org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86. Or the native code had a problem showing the splash screen. It is hard to know if this happened without stepping through Main with a debugger.

After a bit of debugging they produced the following bug report: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=264701

(the launcher looking for the eclipse shared library in an nl fragment)

Does not really sound like our problem; I am leaning towards my edit of the splash screen producing an image that the windows loader does not like :-(

Jody

On 13/08/2010, at 5:43 PM, Jody Garnett wrote:

I tried producing a win32 installer (and there result is on the website currently).

I noticed something odd while testing it - the splash screen is not shown during startup.
I tried the straight up win32 zip archive and it suffers from the same problem.
The mac releases are fine (both 32 and 64 show the splash screen).

Can anyone else comment? Is the splash screen shown on linux?

The only thing I thought odd was that the net.refractions.udig plugin was present in the product as a jar; I don't know if this is a cause; just something I did not expect. It being a jar does not effect the mac splash screen.

Jody