/*******************************************************************************
 * Copyright (c) 2012 Jayant Gupta
 * 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
 * 
 * CONTRIBUTORS:
 * 		Jayant Gupta (initial contribution)
 * 
 * 
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.etrice.ui.layout;

import org.eclipse.jface.preference.IPreferenceStore;
import org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin;
import org.osgi.framework.BundleContext;

import de.cau.cs.kieler.kiml.ui.KimlUiPlugin;

/**
 * The activator class which controls the plug-in life cycle.
 * 
 * @author jayant
 */
public class Activator extends AbstractUIPlugin {

	// The plug-in ID
	public static final String PLUGIN_ID = "org.eclipse.etrice.ui.layout";

	// The shared instance
	private static Activator plugin;

	/**
	 * The constructor
	 */
	public Activator() {
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see
	 * org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#start(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext
	 * )
	 */
	@Override
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
		plugin = this;
	}

	/*
	 * (non-Javadoc)
	 * 
	 * @see
	 * org.eclipse.ui.plugin.AbstractUIPlugin#stop(org.osgi.framework.BundleContext
	 * )
	 */
	@Override
	public void stop(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		plugin = null;
		super.stop(context);
	}

	/**
	 * Returns the shared instance
	 * 
	 * @return the shared instance
	 */
	public static Activator getDefault() {
		return plugin;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the common Preference Store which is shared with KIELER Preference page as well.  
	 * 
	 * @return the shared preference store
	 * 
	 * @author jayant
	 * 
	 */
	public IPreferenceStore getSharedPreferenceStore(){
		return (KimlUiPlugin.getDefault().getPreferenceStore());
		
	}
}