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Fri, 20 January 2012 17:25

Eclipse User

I have a plugin where I've created a customized Outline-view, with different icons/bmp's voor each type of entry in the Outline.

When I run the plugin when I'm developing it, then the Outline-view is shown with the icons (see attached "Outline with icons.jpg").
However, when I make a Jar of the plugin, and drop it in the dropins-directory of a clean installed Eclipse (Helios), run Eclipse, the icons are not shown (instead a red square appears, see the "Outline with lost icons.jpg" attached). The icon's are included in the bin (when making the Jar)

Does anybody know what I do wrong ?

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Re: Icons of Outline-view [message #782077 is a reply to message #781283]

Mon, 23 January 2012 00:17

Eclipse User

Check the mechanism you're using to load those images. Are you sure it still works when everything's in a .jar?

Re: Icons of Outline-view [message #782250 is a reply to message #782077]

Mon, 23 January 2012 07:12

Eclipse User

Nitin Dahyabhai wrote on Mon, 23 January 2012 00:17

Check the mechanism you're using to load those images.

Nitin, thanks for you reply.
The mechanism to load the images is :
private final Image fSubProgramIdIcon= createImage("programid.bmp");

Nitin Dahyabhai wrote on Mon, 23 January 2012 00:17

Are you sure it still works when everything's in a .jar?

It DOESN'T work when it's in a jar. When developing I see the icons in the Outline-view. When deployed, via a .jar, the icons are NOT shown in the Outline-view !! (Instead a small red square is shown).

Re: Icons of Outline-view [message #782270 is a reply to message #782077]

Mon, 23 January 2012 07:41

Eclipse User

Nitin Dahyabhai wrote on Mon, 23 January 2012 00:17

Check the mechanism you're using to load those images. Are you sure it still works when everything's in a .jar?

My previous post was not complete. Below is the mechanism how the image is loaded. It works when developing the plugin. When deployed via a .jar the icons are not shown (instead a small red square is shown) and no messagebox is coming.

private static URL fgIconBaseURL= HPNSEditorPlugin.getDefault().getBundle().getEntry("/icons/");
private final Image fSectionIcon= createImage("section.gif");

public static Image createImage(String icon) {
try {
ImageDescriptor id= ImageDescriptor.createFromURL(new URL(fgIconBaseURL, icon));
return id.createImage();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
SUPFunctions prvFunctions = new SUPFunctions();
prvFunctions.MSGBOX ("no icon 1");
}
return null;
}

Re: Icons of Outline-view [message #782815 is a reply to message #782270]

Tue, 24 January 2012 09:05

Eclipse User

On 23.01.2012 13:41, Kitesurfer Mising name wrote:
> Nitin Dahyabhai wrote on Mon, 23 January 2012 00:17
>> Check the mechanism you're using to load those images. Are you sure
>> it still works when everything's in a .jar?
>
>
> My previous post was not complete. Below is the mechanism how the
> image is loaded. It works when developing the plugin. When deployed
> via a .jar the icons are not shown (instead a small red square is
> shown) and no messagebox is coming.
>
> private static URL fgIconBaseURL=
> HPNSEditorPlugin.getDefault().getBundle().getEntry("/icons/");
> private final Image fSectionIcon= createImage("section.gif");
>
> public static Image createImage(String icon) {
> try {
> ImageDescriptor id= ImageDescriptor.createFromURL(new
> URL(fgIconBaseURL, icon));
> return id.createImage();
> } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
> SUPFunctions prvFunctions = new SUPFunctions();
> prvFunctions.MSGBOX ("no icon 1");
> } return null;
> }
>
If you use the Eclipse/bundle mechanism to load the images, then they
have to be at the same location as in the source and not inside 'bin'.
If your build.properties is correct then the 'Deployable Plug-ins and
fragments' export wizard should do this correctly.

Dani
>
>

Re: Icons of Outline-view [message #782975 is a reply to message #782815]

Tue, 24 January 2012 16:14

Eclipse User

Thanks for you reply Dani.

My build.properties look like this :
source.recipeeditor.jar = src/
output.recipeeditor.jar = bin/
bin.includes = plugin.xml,\
recipeeditor.jar,\
icons/
src.includes = icons/

Is this the line what you mean ?

Suppose I would place all my icons manually somewhere inside the directory on C where I installed Eclipse, where would I have to put them to get it working ?

Re: Icons of Outline-view [message #783318 is a reply to message #782815]

Wed, 25 January 2012 08:47

Eclipse User

Hi Dani,

I found what is the cause. When developing a plugin the name of the icon in the sourcecode, in my case "section.gif", and the name of the icon in the icon-folder of the project, in my case "SECTION.gif", are case-insensitive.

When deploying the plugin via a .tar file suddenly it becomes case-sensitive !! ... when I change the sourcecode to "SECTION.gif" it all works, also when deployed.

This might be a "bug" in Eclipse.

So far for this problem. The other one, regarding the Outline-view, is that when I have a an Outline-view with a lot of items ... I scroll to the below part of the Outline-view ... click on the last item of the Outline-view (resulting that the editor goes to the end of my sourcecode) ... I alter something in the sourcecode ... then Outline-view suddenly "jumps" to the top !!
What I'd want is that the Outline of my extension(plugin) works just like the Outline of java. With java the Outline is positioned on the same item as where I am in the sourcecode.
Do you, or anyone, know how to do this ?

Thanks.
Hans

Re: Icons of Outline-view [message #787338 is a reply to message #783318]

Tue, 31 January 2012 08:21

Eclipse User

On 25.01.2012 14:47, Kitesurfer Mising name wrote:
> Hi Dani,
>
> I found what is the cause. When developing a plugin the name of the
> icon in the sourcecode, in my case "section.gif", and the name of the
> icon in the icon-folder of the project, in my case "SECTION.gif", are
> case-insensitive.
>
> When deploying the plugin via a .tar file suddenly it becomes
> case-sensitive !! ... when I change the sourcecode to "SECTION.gif" it
> all works, also when deployed.
>
> This might be a "bug" in Eclipse.
>
> So far for this problem. The other one, regarding the Outline-view, is
> that when I have a an Outline-view with a lot of items ... I scroll to
> the below part of the Outline-view ... click on the last item of the
> Outline-view (resulting that the editor goes to the end of my
> sourcecode) ... I alter something in the sourcecode ... then
> Outline-view suddenly "jumps" to the top !! What I'd want is that the
> Outline of my extension(plugin) works just like the Outline of java.
> With java the Outline is positioned on the same item as where I am in
> the sourcecode.
> Do you, or anyone, know how to do this ?
I guess you populate the Outline page with new input when the source
changes. If you only add and remove the children then the selection
should stay unless of course you change (e.g. rename) the selected element.

Dani
>
> Thanks.
> Hans

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