Activator.java

/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2009 STMicroelectronics.
 * 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:
 *    Marzia Maugeri <marzia.maugeri@st.com> - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.linuxtools.internal.dataviewers.charts;

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.eclipse.linuxtools.dataviewers.charts"; //$NON-NLS-1$

    // The shared instance
    private static Activator plugin;

    @Override
    public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
        super.start(context);
        plugin = this;
    }

    @Override
    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;
    }

    /**
     * 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 imageDescriptorFromPlugin(PLUGIN_ID, path);
    }

    /**
     * Returns an image from the path
     *
     * @param path
     *            the path
     * @return the image
     */
    public static Image getImage(String path) {
        Image image = plugin.getImageRegistry().get(path);
        if (image == null) {
            image = getImageDescriptor(path).createImage();
            plugin.getImageRegistry().put(path, image);
        }
        return image;
    }

}