[tigerstripe-dev] Re: Icon extension point...

[Eric Dillon <erdillon@xxxxxxxxx>]

Title: Re: Icon extension point...

Agreed.

Thanks,
Eric


On 8/18/08 9:53 AM, "Steve Jerman (stjerman)" <stjerman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The icon extension point doesn't work in practise.... have raised a bug.
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> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=244446
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> So the primary issue is that the Metadata factory is keys off of the implementation class fqn. There are two issues with this.. 1) shoudn't/can't reference them in the extension point. (2) the metadata lookup overrides this and searches for the simple name only.
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> So...
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> 1) I think the key needs to be changed so that is based on the simple name.
> 2) A new extension point added that allows just the icons to be overriden based on the simple name of the class...
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> I will code this up let me know if you have issues..
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> Steve