UiPlugin.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2004, 2006
 * Thomas Hallgren, Kenneth Olwing, Mitch Sonies
 * Pontus Rydin, Nils Unden, Peer Torngren
 * The code, documentation and other materials contained herein have been
 * licensed under the Eclipse Public License - v 1.0 by the individual
 * copyright holders listed above, as Initial Contributors under such license.
 * The text of such license is available at www.eclipse.org.
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.buckminster.ant.ui;

import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
import org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

/**
 * The main plugin class to be used in the desktop.
 */
public class UiPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin
{

	// The shared instance.
	private static UiPlugin plugin;

	/**
	 * The constructor.
	 */
	public UiPlugin()
	{
		plugin = this;
	}

	/**
	 * This method is called upon plug-in activation
	 */
	@Override
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception
	{
		super.start(context);
	}

	/**
	 * This method is called when the plug-in is stopped
	 */
	@Override
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception
	{
		super.stop(context);
		plugin = null;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the shared instance.
	 */
	public static UiPlugin getDefault()
	{
		return plugin;
	}

	/**
	 * Returns an image descriptor for the image file at the given plug-in relative path.
	 * @param path the path
	 * @return the image descriptor
	 */
	public static ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor(String path)
	{
		return AbstractUIPlugin.imageDescriptorFromPlugin("org.eclipse.buckminster.ant.ui", path);
	}
}