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/*******************************************************************************
 * 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
 *
 * Contributors:
 *     IBM Corporation - Jeff Briggs, Henry Hughes, Ryan Morse, Anithra P J
 *******************************************************************************/

package org.eclipse.linuxtools.internal.systemtap.ui.dashboardextension;

import org.eclipse.ui.IStartup;
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 DashboardExtensionPlugin extends AbstractUIPlugin implements IStartup {

	//The shared instance.
	private static DashboardExtensionPlugin plugin;
	
	/**
	 * The constructor.
	 */
	public DashboardExtensionPlugin() {
		plugin = this;
	}

	/**
	 * This method is called upon plug-in activation
	 */
	public void start(BundleContext context) throws Exception {
		super.start(context);
	}

	/**
	 * 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 DashboardExtensionPlugin 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.linuxtools.systemtap.ui.dashboardextension", path);
	}
	
	public void earlyStartup() {}
}