Question

I cannot get this to work so I thought it might be a wise idea posting over here…

I have a context menu in SWT (actually its an Eclipse plugin). It’s a cascaded menu, so it expands as soon as you hover over a certain entry…

My problem is, that I want to attach a small icon to the menu but I struggle with that!

Code:
….

            manager.add(new Separator());

            // icon for the "change color" menu
            ImageDescriptor icon = ImageDescriptor.createFromFile(null,
                "icons/palette_brush.png");

            // submenu
            MenuManager colorMenu = new MenuManager("Menu", icon,  null);

            // Actions
            colorMenu.add(someAction);

            // add the action to the submenu
            manager.add(colorMenu);

           ....

My problem is, that the new MenuManager can either be called with 2 Arguments (no attached image) or 3 (with attached image). The image should be passed along as ImageDescriptor.

The question basically is:
“How can I get an Imagedescriptor off an image?”

Maybe it’s an stupid mistake – but I cannot get an ImageDescriptor from an image file. I have an *.png icon ready to use, but I struggle incorporating this.

If anyone could help out with a snippet, that would get me an ImageDescriptor from an image file this would be soo awesome!

Best regards!

MenuManager Documentation:
MenuManager Docu

Answer 1

Bundle bundle = Platform.getBundle(pluginId);
URL fullPathString = BundleUtility.find(bundle, "icons/palette_brush.png");
ImageDescriptor.createFromURL(fullPathString);

pluginId is the id of the plugin where you put your icon.