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Bug 355862

Summary:	[Intro] Intro as an editor / Intro with custom content
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Christian Schneider <schneider>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	cgold, pchuong, remy.suen
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description Christian Schneider

2011-08-25 11:28:55 EDT

Build Identifier: 

For our tool we decided to show an editor with getting started content, news feed and change log. As the IIntroPart already offers most of the features for that (html with dynamic content and link actions) I would have liked to use it. But it is currently impossible to
a) use an intro screen with content other than an intro configured though extensions and
b) display the intro in an editor (instead of a view part).

It was of cause possible to write my own editor with a few code (270 lines) and a lot of internal API usage. But I would love to see such a thing in the core. Any interest in that?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Eric Moffatt

2011-11-16 15:07:43 EST

Christian, unfortunately we're really short on cycles at the moment so this is unlikely to make it into the current release cycle. Note that in 4.x we allow you to put views in the editor area so you may be able to just put the 'Welcome' view (as a view) there if that helps.

Here's a example of the contribution you'd make to do this:

<extension
    point="org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions">
  <perspectiveExtension
      targetID="org.eclipse.team.cvs.ui.cvsPerspective">
    <view
        id="org.eclipse.ui.internal.introview"
        relationship="stack"
        relative="org.eclipse.ui.editorss">
    </view>
  </perspectiveExtension>
</extension>

Unfortunately I'm just now implementing the Intro support for 4.x so you'll have to wait until 4.2 M4 comes out to try this...

Comment 2 Christian Schneider

2011-11-17 06:13:44 EST

Hi Eric,

thanks for the info. This would resolve my point b) at least.

Comment 3 Patrick Chuong

2013-11-04 13:26:35 EST

Hi Eric,

Is there a way to set the intro viewpart maximized in the editor area? If I use the perspectiveExtensions trick, the intro viewpart is not maximized when eclipse start with a clean workspace.

Comment 4 Christian Schneider

2015-04-01 08:02:53 EDT

At least for us this does not need any resolving. Our workaround is sufficient for our product.