Eclipse Installer only: Customizing the splash screen

If your organization chooses to install TPF Toolkit by using the Eclipse Installer, you can specify a custom splash screen to be displayed on your user instances of TPF Toolkit by adding Eclipse.ini tasks to your TPF Toolkit product catalog (com.ibm.tpf.toolkit.products.setup). Eclipse.ini tasks are used to set parameters in the Toolkit.ini file.

About this task

To specify a custom splash screen for TPF Toolkit, you can create an Eclipse.ini task to add the -showSplash parameter to the com.ibm.tpf.toolkit.products.setup file and copy the product catalog file to the internal host to overwrite the existing file. The next time your users start TPF Toolkit, the -showSplash value that you specified will automatically be added to the TPFToolkit.ini file in their TPF Toolkit installation directory, and the custom splash screen will be displayed.

For more information about the -showSplash parameter, see The Eclipse runtime options.

Procedure

Follow the procedure in Eclipse Installer only: Customizing TPF Toolkit startup, and in step 4, specify the fields in the Properties window as follows:
  1. In the ID field, specify a unique ID for the Eclipse.ini task.
  2. Optional: In the Description field, enter a description about the Eclipse.ini task.
  3. In the Option field, enter -showSplash.
  4. In the Value field, specify the path to the bitmap to be used as the splash screen.
  5. In the VM field, set the value to false.