examples/org.eclipse.ui.examples.views.properties.tabbed.logic/src/org/eclipse/ui/examples/views/properties/tabbed/logic/Activator.java

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 * 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
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 * 
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 *******************************************************************************/
package org.eclipse.ui.examples.views.properties.tabbed.logic;

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

/**
 * The main plugin class to be used in the desktop.
 */
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.logic", path);//$NON-NLS-1$
	}
}