Activator.java

/*
 * Copyright (c) 2012 European Synchrotron Radiation Facility,
 *                    Diamond Light Source Ltd.
 *
 * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
 * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
 * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 */ 
package fable.imageviewer.rcp;

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

/**
 * The activator class controls the plug-in life cycle
 */
public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin {

	// The plug-in ID
	public static final String PLUGIN_ID = "org.dawb.fable.imageviewer";

	// The shared instance
	private static Activator plugin;

	/**
	 * The constructor
	 */
	public Activator() {
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see
	 * org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#start(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext
	 * )
	 */
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
		plugin = this;
		/*
		Logger logger = FableLogger.getLogger((Class<?>) Activator.class);
		logger.info("ImageViewer application starting");
		*/
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see
	 * org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#stop(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext
	 * )
	 */
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}

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

	/**
	 * Creates the image, this should be disposed later.
	 * @param path
	 * @return Image
	 */
	public static Image getImage(String path) {
		ImageDescriptor des = imageDescriptorFromPlugin(PLUGIN_ID, path);
		return des.createImage();
	}

	public static ImageDescriptor getImageDescriptor(String path) {
		return imageDescriptorFromPlugin(PLUGIN_ID, path);
	}


}