/********************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2006 IBM Corporation. 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 http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 * 
 * Initial Contributors:
 * The following IBM employees contributed to the Remote System Explorer
 * component that contains this file: David McKnight, Kushal Munir, 
 * Michael Berger, David Dykstal, Phil Coulthard, Don Yantzi, Eric Simpson, 
 * Emily Bruner, Mazen Faraj, Adrian Storisteanu, Li Ding, and Kent Hawley.
 * 
 * Contributors:
 * {Name} (company) - description of contribution.
 ********************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.rse.subsystems.files.local;

import org.eclipse.ui.plugin.*;
import org.eclipse.jface.resource.ImageDescriptor;
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);
		
		// make sure files.ui is activated
		org.eclipse.rse.files.ui.Activator.getDefault();
	}

	/**
	 * 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.
	 */
	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.rse.subsystems.dstore", path);
	}
}