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Re: [e4-dev] Variables Icon Paths

The other radical approach is that we are not setting any image paths
(in pure e4) anymore and completely rely on CSS.

Tom

On 23.01.14 09:49, Tom Schindl wrote:
> 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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