MainPlugin.java

/**
 * Copyright (c) 2005-2006 Aptana, Inc.
 *
 * 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. If redistributing this code,
 * this entire header must remain intact.
 */
package com.aptana.radrails.rcp.main;

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

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

	// The shared instance.
	private static MainPlugin plugin;

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

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

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

	/**
	 * Returns the shared instance.
	 * 
	 * @return MainPlugin
	 */
	public static MainPlugin 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("com.aptana.radrails.rcp.main", path); //$NON-NLS-1$
	}
}