JAVA How to get SWT or JFace internal images

Question

Does anybody know where are and how can I obtain internal images which are used by SWT/JFace, like WARNING, ERROR or INFORMATION icons and others...? Where are they situated and how to get them into my code ?

Answer 1

Some parts of JFace uses images from JFaceResources rather than SWT . You find these as

Image i = JFaceResources.getImage(...);

Unfortunately, everybody can install new images into the resource manager, so there are no way to predict the names of images. Some general images are installed in JFaceResources.initializeDefaultImages() .

(If you have images, font or colors you use multiple times across your application, then look into JFaceResources .)

Also - if you are using Eclipse RCP - you can find a number of images using

Image i = PlatformUI.getWorkbench().getSharedImages().getImage(ISharedImages...);

You can find additional constants in org.eclipse.ui.ide.IDE.SharedImages and org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.IDEInternalWorkbenchImages (for IDEs).

Answer 2

You can use the getSystemImage() method of Display to get those images. For example:

Display d = Display.getCurrent(); 
Image img = d.getSystemImage(SWT.ICON_WARNING);

Hope that helps