Branding

The Branding page gives the product its identity by customizing the splash screen, window images, About dialog and the welcome experience.

Splash Screen

The splash screen is typically located at the root of the product-defining plug-in and must be called splash.bmp.

Alternately, you may choose to place it at the root of any other plug-in in the product, but the name restriction stands.

If you like the integrated progress bar in the Eclipse splash screen, you can easily do the same for your product splash screen by specifying the co-ordinates of the progress bar and message, as well as the text color.

The integrated progress data are properties in the org.eclipse.core.runtime.products extension.

Window Images

The Window Images section specifies the images associated with a product. If the images supplied by you do not match the size requirements, PDE flags a warning at the top of the page.

About Dialog

The About Dialog is customiable by providing a custom image and text.

The About dialog text and image are also properties in the org.eclipse.core.runtime.products extension.

Welcome Page

It is recommended to ship a product with its own welcome page to introduce the features of the product to first-time users.

Providing a welcome page (Intro) requires the binding of the product to an org.eclipse.ui.intro extension.

The Intro ID combo box is populated with existing Intro identifiers defined by plug-ins in the workspace and in the target.

You may also create a new Intro on the fly by pressing the New.. button.