Eclipse 4 e4 - about dialog
Question
I am building an Eclipse 4 Application and I would like to make an about dialog as known from Eclipse 3. I used the Menu Spy and learned the following:
The active contribution location URI:
menu:help?after=about
The active action definition identifier:
org.eclipse.ui.help.aboutAction
The active contribution item class:
ActionFactory$WorkbenchCommandAction
The contributing plug-in:
org.eclipse.ui.workbench
QUESTION: Can I somehow use this action to open or extend the about dialog in my application?
La solution
There is no such a thing like preimplemented "about" dialog in e4. The old about dialog relied on the ´org.eclipse.ui.IWorkbench´ which is null in new e4 applicaiton-model.
So the about dialog must be implemented from scratch.
Autres conseils
These components aren't migrated yet to eclipse 4. I created a bug report for this issue. If you think this is important to be fixed, please consider a vote on this report.