Radek's Tech Blog » exe http://urbas.tk Radoslaw H. Urbas homepage / blog Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:31:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Eclipse RCP launcher icon http://urbas.tk/index.php/2008/08/12/eclipse-rcp-launcher-icon/ http://urbas.tk/index.php/2008/08/12/eclipse-rcp-launcher-icon/#comments Tue, 12 Aug 2008 00:43:56 +0000 Radoslaw Urbas http://urbas.tk/?p=43 Eclipse RCP allows easily create an application. Additional advantage of the platform is a native launcher of the application which allows it to behave more like “native” application. It much better to have a process called your_application.exe running instead of another java.exe process.  You will probably also want to have some nice icon attached to *.exe file of your application. This can be done easily in Eclipse 3.4. First you need to create *.ico file (containing all necassary images inside) – one of the generators available on the web can be used for this (for example).

Next step is configuration in *.product file:

   <launcher name="caracal">
      <solaris>
      <win useico="true">
         <ico path="/pl.edu.agh.caracal.application/icons/caracal.ico"></ico>
         <bmp></bmp>
      </win>
   </solaris>
</launcher>

You can also use product file editor for this (a lot of enhancements were added in Eclipse 3.4):

Launcher icon configuration

After building the application based on product file launcher will have your custom icon. No resource hacking, nor recompiling native C code is required!

Launcher custom icon

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