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Re: [e4-dev] Variables Icon Paths

Well finally I think this should be married with the image registry I
invented for the e4-tools, which would give us automagic image disposal!

Tom

On 23.01.14 09:46, Marco Descher wrote:
> Ah I see,
> 
> sorry for missing out on that! No, my solution is not dynamic! But I guess it would
> not be much of a problem to make it dynamic! What I liked about our approach is, that
> it is both possible to access the icons out of the code, and out of the app model. Making
> this additionally dynamic would probably cope for every requirement?!
> 
> Considering your dynamic approach I think that a combined solution would really be great!
> Just consider having your dynamic approach also available for Actions and centralized for
> the overall application.
> 
> cheers, marco
> 
> 
> An 23. Jänner 2014 at 09:41:02, Tom Schindl (tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) schrieb:
>>  
>> The main idea is that this is dynamic! I can remember having read  
>> your
>> article but maybe I missed that your solution is dynamic?
>>  
>> Please note that my proposal does adapt dynamically at runtime  
>> so that
>> e.g. the ToolItem when becoming disabled will get a different  
>> image, if
>> an operation is running the parts gets a different icon, ... .  
>>  
>> Tom
>>  
>> On 23.01.14 09:36, Marco Descher wrote:
>>> Hy Tom,
>>>
>>> I had a shot on this with a different solution:
>>>
>>> See EclipseMagazin 2.2013 - i created a bundle adding a new URL  
>> Handler, namely icon://
>>> were I could use static allocations like icon://PERSON which  
>> worked out quite well! It is
>>> extended with a fragment, which allows for easy exchange of  
>> the complete icon set for the
>>> whole application.
>>>
>>> I think this approach could be extended to create an AddOn managing  
>> all icons, allowing
>>> to address them icon:// style!
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> marco
>>>
>>>
>>> An 23. Jänner 2014 at 09:27:54, Tom Schindl (tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)  
>> schrieb:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> While reading an article from Marc Teufel on an Eclipse 4 application  
>>>> it
>>>> reminded me of something I wanted to purpose since some time  
>> already
>>>> (I
>>>> also saw a bug flying by to allow one to control the icons via  
>> CSS!).
>>>>
>>>> Anyways here we go. The idea is fairly simple and already known  
>>>> from 3.x
>>>> where one can use a fixed set of variables in the image paths.  
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to extend this to use all variables of the IEclipseContext  
>>>> so
>>>> one can write an image URL like this:
>>>>
>>>> platform:/plugin/icons/${themeId}/${enabled}/img.png  
>>>>
>>>> What do you think, does this make sense?
>>>>
>>>> Tom
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