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Possible to avoid loading images twice? [message #559196]

Wed, 15 September 2010 18:22

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I have an icon that I want to use for a view (i.e. appear in the tab), and also in certain table cells. For former, I need to reference the icon in the plugin.xml. For latter, I need to add the icon to an ImageRegistry that is managed by the plugin.

Is Eclipse smart enough to not load the image twice? Or is there another solution that avoids loading the image twice? Would be neat if I could declare all my resources in the plugin.xml rather than having to manage them explicitly with ImageRegistries etc...

Re: Possible to avoid loading images twice? [message #559340 is a reply to message #559196]

Thu, 16 September 2010 07:44

Eclipse User

Eric Jain wrote:
> I have an icon that I want to use for a view (i.e. appear in the tab),
> and also in certain table cells. For former, I need to reference the
> icon in the plugin.xml. For latter, I need to add the icon to an
> ImageRegistry that is managed by the plugin.
>
> Is Eclipse smart enough to not load the image twice? Or is there another
> solution that avoids loading the image twice? Would be neat if I could
> declare all my resources in the plugin.xml rather than having to manage
> them explicitly with ImageRegistries etc...
>

Most Extension Points that load an icon use something like
AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin(extendingPluginId , icon).

Then when the Image is needed, they use something like:

LocalResourceManager localManager
= new LocalResourceManager(JFaceResources.getResources());
Image image = localManager.createImageWithDefault(imageDescriptor)

When the object managing the image (label provider, decorator,
contribution item) is disposed it does a localManager.dispose() to clean
up any images it created. They are reference counted and managed by the
main JFaceResources manager.

You can do the same, and the image will only be loaded once.

PW

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