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Provides support for managing resources such as SWT
fonts and images.
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Package Specification</h2>
This package contains support for managing resources, including:
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<li>
font registries (<tt>FontRegistry</tt>) - for hanging on to the SWT font
objects needed by an application</li>

<li>
color registries (<tt>ColorRegistry</tt>) - for hanging on to the SWT color 
objects needed by an application</li>

<li>
image registries (<tt>ImageRegistry</tt>) - for hanging on to the SWT image
objects needed by an application</li>

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image descriptors (<tt>ImageDescriptor</tt>) - surrogate object for creating
SWT images</li>

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string conversion (<tt>StringConverter</tt>) - for parsing property files</li>
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The JFace resources module is an independent JFace module requiring a basic
knowledge of SWT and the JFace property change event mechanism. Familiarity
with other JFace modules is not required.
<p>Image descriptors are objects that knows how to create an image on demand.
They serve as a lightweight representation of images in situations where
no SWT display exists yet, and are used mainly in conjunction with image
registries. This package contains the image descriptor framework, which
is a simple hierarchy rooted at the abstract class <tt>ImageDescriptor</tt>.
The framework includes abstract subclasses for composing images (<tt>CompositeImageDescriptor</tt>)
as well as a ready-made concrete subclass for loading images from files
(<tt>FileImageDescriptor</tt>).
<p>The class <tt>JFaceResources</tt> maintains global state on behalf of
JFace itself consisting of JFace's own image registry, font registry, resource
bundle, and preference store.
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