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Dynamic icons [message #1727578]

Thu, 24 March 2016 07:30

Peter Kullmann

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Registered: July 2009

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I wonder how I can use dynamically created images as icons in MHandledMenuItems? In the old e3 code I could draw an image and set a descriptor to an Action (for example).

In e4 there is only the iconURI property. Setting this seems a bit difficult for dynamically created images.

One way to do this is to register an OSGi URLStreamHandlerService and set the icon URI to this special scheme. This is working but is a little too much overhead, I think. Another way would be to save the image to disk and set the URI of the file in the model.

An easy way would be an extension in the renderer where one could supply an ImageDescriptor in the transient data collection.

Peter

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