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How to set the window title after startup of an RCP application

I am programming an e4 RCP application and would like to set it's window title once it has started. However I could not find any way to realise that.

Reason is, I would like to add some explicit info about the running program so the user can differ between multiple launches.

Any hints on that?

Solution

  • In e4 you can set the main window title by calling the setLabel method of the MWindow for the main window. Use the EModelService to find the main window.

    A suitable place to do this might be in an 'application startup complete' event in your RCP LifeCycle class

    @Optional
@Inject
public void appStartupComplete(@UIEventTopic(UIEvents.UILifeCycle.APP_STARTUP_COMPLETE) Event event, 
                               EModelService modelService, MApplication application)
{
  MWindow window = (MWindow)modelService.find("top window id", application);

  window.setLabel("new window title");
}

    Note: Event is org.osgi.service.event.Event