/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation and others.
 * 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
 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ui.examples.views.properties.tabbed.article;

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

/**
 * Activator for this plug-in.
 * 
 * @author Anthony Hunter
 */
public class Activator
    extends AbstractUIPlugin {

    // The shared instance.
    private static Activator plugin;

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

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

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

    /**
     * Returns the shared instance.
     * 
     * @return the shared instance.
     */
    public static Activator 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.ui.examples.views.properties.tabbed.article", path);//$NON-NLS-1$
    }
}