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accessing resources from other plugin in Application.e4xmi [message #1073978]

Thu, 25 July 2013 18:02

Eclipse User

Hi all,
I want to use an icon in my Application.e4xmi from an other plugin which
I've created. But if I write e.g.

platform:/plugin/de.my.own.resourcesplugin/icons/16/app_16.png

for Icon URI the Application editor complaints about "missing path". How
can I expose the icons from my plugin for others?

Thanks in advance,
Ralf.

Re: accessing resources from other plugin in Application.e4xmi [message #1073999 is a reply to message #1073978]

Thu, 25 July 2013 19:01

Eclipse User

You should be able to, though you should either have an explicit dependency on your resourcesplugin or have a way to handle missing images to avoid the ugly red square.

With that said, what is the exact error message you are getting?

JD

Re: accessing resources from other plugin in Application.e4xmi [message #1074025 is a reply to message #1073999]

Thu, 25 July 2013 20:25

Eclipse User

Am 26.07.2013 01:01, schrieb Joseph Carroll:
> You should be able to, though you should either have an explicit
> dependency on your resourcesplugin or have a way to handle missing
> images to avoid the ugly red square.
>
> With that said, what is the exact error message you are getting?
>
> JD

Hi Joseph,
the exact message is "the system cannot find the path specified". What
I've now tried is to select the real path in my plugin in, i.e.

platform:/plugin/de.my.own.resourcesplugin/src/main/resources/icons/16/app_16.png

which is really ugly (but working!). If I build that plugin with Maven
(Tycho) than the correct structure is generated:. The resulting jar file
has the following directories (1st level):

<root>
/de
/icons
/META-INF
/OSGI-INF

How can I fix that?

Regards,
Ralf.

Re: accessing resources from other plugin in Application.e4xmi [message #1074183 is a reply to message #1074025]

Fri, 26 July 2013 04:35

Eclipse User

This directory is only available at dev-time and once you export your
project it won't be found.

The problem you have is a mismatch between your structure in eclipse
where icons are located in "src/main/resources/icons" and
runtime-classpath where it is "icons/...".

My wild guess is that if you start the application inside eclipse with
the path
"platform:/plugin/de.my.own.resourcesplugin/icons/16/app_16.png" it will
work although the tooling editor tells you the icon is not found (it
does not know about the classpath)!

Like in my other answer to your ResourceProvider problem I'd suggest you
move away from your maven story and put the icons into an icons folder
directly below your plugin dir.

So your layout in Eclipse looks like this:

de.my.own.resourcesplugin
src
de
....
icons

and add icons to your build.properties and let PDE manage your project
and maven-tycho build it.

Tom

On 26.07.13 02:31, Ralf Heydenreich wrote:
> Am 26.07.2013 01:01, schrieb Joseph Carroll:
>> You should be able to, though you should either have an explicit
>> dependency on your resourcesplugin or have a way to handle missing
>> images to avoid the ugly red square.
>>
>> With that said, what is the exact error message you are getting?
>>
>> JD
>
> Hi Joseph,
> the exact message is "the system cannot find the path specified". What
> I've now tried is to select the real path in my plugin in, i.e.
>
> platform:/plugin/de.my.own.resourcesplugin/src/main/resources/icons/16/app_16.png
>
> which is really ugly (but working!). If I build that plugin with Maven
> (Tycho) than the correct structure is generated:. The resulting jar file
> has the following directories (1st level):
>
> <root>
> /de
> /icons
> /META-INF
> /OSGI-INF
>
> How can I fix that?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf.
>
>

Re: accessing resources from other plugin in Application.e4xmi [message #1074368 is a reply to message #1074183]

Fri, 26 July 2013 11:31

Eclipse User

Couldn't have said it better.

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