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Icon Sharing between plugins [message #527355]

Thu, 15 April 2010 00:08

dwain Missing name

Messages: 35
Registered: October 2009

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Hello there, my team is building an RCP application. We have a standard common plugin that has our common libraries and classes that all of our other plugins use. I would like to keep commonly used icons, for example the delete icon, in this common plugin.

This is not very difficult to do with a programmatic approach. However, I am having trouble using these icons through the plugin.xml when I export the jar files. Right now I manually put in the full path of the icon, and that works great when I run the program straight out of eclipse. I see the problem when I export the application and run it from the jar files. There are several icons that do not show up anymore, that did show up when running from eclipse.

So I am assuming that I am doing something wrong. Can this be done in this manner? Is there a better solution that I am not thinking about? I would really like to have the standard icons in one place, that makes it so much easier if you need to change one. Well thank you for taking a look at this,

Dwain

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Re: Icon Sharing between plugins [message #527371 is a reply to message #527355]

Thu, 15 April 2010 05:44

Daniel KrÃ¼gler

Messages: 853
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

On 15.04.2010 02:08, dwain wrote:
> Hello there, my team is building an RCP application. We have a standard
> common plugin that has our common libraries and classes that all of our
> other plugins use. I would like to keep commonly used icons, for example
> the delete icon, in this common plugin.
> This is not very difficult to do with a programmatic approach. However,
> I am having trouble using these icons through the plugin.xml when I
> export the jar files. Right now I manually put in the full path of the
> icon, and that works great when I run the program straight out of
> eclipse. I see the problem when I export the application and run it from
> the jar files. There are several icons that do not show up anymore, that
> did show up when running from eclipse.
> So I am assuming that I am doing something wrong. Can this be done in
> this manner?

There exists already a standard way to refer to the resources of other
plugins. Just use the notation:

platform:/plugin/${plugin_id}/${relative_path_within_plugin}

One example is:

platform:/plugin/org.eclipse.ui/icons/full/obj16/delete_obj. gif

HTH & Greetings from Bremen,

Daniel Krügler

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