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/*
 * 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);
    }

}