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External Image Management in RCP [message #902987] Tue, 21 August 2012 14:25 Go to next message
ModelGeek Mising name is currently offline ModelGeek Mising nameFriend
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Hi,

I am working with an RCP app uing GEF library. I have couple of hundreds of images and i have multiple plugins. I want to create one plugin for image management and that will share all images amongst rest of plugins something like ISharedImages concept.

what is the best practise in that regard.

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Re: External Image Management in RCP [message #903481 is a reply to message #902987] Thu, 23 August 2012 19:35 Go to previous message
Paul Webster is currently offline Paul WebsterFriend
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If a UI plugin activator subclasses AbstractUIPlugin, you have a couple of options.

1) use org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin.getImageRegistry() and load it up with image descriptors in org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin.initializeImageRegistry(ImageRegistry). Then have all of your bundles retrieve that bundle's image registry and get Images and ImageDescriptors from it.

2) use org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin(String, String) from your bundles to get ImageDescriptors from a central plugin. Then classes in your plugins have to create Images out of them, preferrably using a local resource manager org.eclipse.jface.resource.LocalResourceManager

For centrally located images that are used in extensions, you can use the platform:/plugin/plugin.id/path/to/icon.gif pattern to load images from other plugins.

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