org.eclipse.jface.resource
Class ImageRegistry

java.lang.Object
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public class ImageRegistry

extends Object

An image registry maintains a mapping between symbolic image names and SWT image objects or special image descriptor objects which defer the creation of SWT image objects until they are needed.

An image registry owns all of the image objects registered with it, and automatically disposes of them when the SWT Display that creates the fonts is disposed. Because of this, clients do not need to (indeed, must not attempt to) dispose of these images themselves.

Clients may instantiate this class (it was not designed to be subclassed).

Unlike the FontRegistry, it is an error to replace images. As a result there are no events that fire when values are changed in the registry

Constructor Summary

ImageRegistry()
Creates an empty image registry.

ImageRegistry(Display display)
Creates an empty image registry.

Method Summary

Image	get(String key) Returns the image associated with the given key in this registry, or null if none.
void	put(String key, Image image) Adds an image to this registry.
void	put(String key, ImageDescriptor descriptor) Adds (or replaces) an image descriptor to this registry.

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

clone, equals, finalize, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

ImageRegistry

public ImageRegistry()

Creates an empty image registry.

There must be an SWT Display created in the current thread before calling this method.

ImageRegistry

public ImageRegistry(Display display)

Creates an empty image registry.

Method Detail

get

public Image get(String key)

Returns the image associated with the given key in this registry, or null if none.

Parameters:

key - the key

Returns:

the image, or null if none

put

public void put(String key,
                ImageDescriptor descriptor)

Adds (or replaces) an image descriptor to this registry. The first time this new entry is retrieved, the image descriptor's image will be computed (via ImageDescriptor.createImage) and remembered. This method replaces an existing image descriptor associated with the given key, but fails if there is a real image associated with it.

Parameters:

key - the key

descriptor - the ImageDescriptor

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the key already exists

put

public void put(String key,
                Image image)

Adds an image to this registry. This method fails if there is already an image with the given key.

Note that an image registry owns all of the image objects registered with it, and automatically disposes of them the SWT Display is disposed. Because of this, clients must not register an image object that is managed by another object.

Parameters:

key - the key

image - the image

Throws:

IllegalArgumentException - if the key already exists