Custom about dialogs in Eclipse applications

Hi,

I have an Eclipse workbench application composed of many plugins. I'd like to set the about text of the app to reflect the build number.

There seems to be a couple of places to do this: - Inside the application's .product file (setting text here doesn't seem to do anything?) - Inside the plugin.xml file of the main plugin (this does seem to work).

I have two questions:

1. What is the best way to achieve this? via plugin.xml?
2. Why is the text I set in the product file ignored?

From stackoverflow

• It (text and picture of an about dialog) should be in the about.ini of a feature or product plugin.

  

  Note: for the picture, this blog entry "How Can I Give My Eclipse Blob An Icon In The Flippin’ About Dialog?" is quite nice.

  Notebis: with the latest 3.5Mx releases, the about box is even more configurable.

  Daniel : Nice post! Thank you. I think I'll have to revise our approach to branding to something more Feature oriented. Any ideas why the various plugins/products have spots for setting about info as well? Is there any use for these fields?