Description Karice McIntyre 2005-07-26 17:25:04 EDT

Target for 3.1.1 release (NL release).

In Eclipse 3.1, icons are being supplied for BiDi locales that will appear as 
if the icon has been reversed.  For all plugins that supply icons, some code 
changes are required to support this that do not appear to be present when 
running Eclipse in a BiDi locale (get BiDi fragments then run Eclipse with 
program argument -nl ar_EG).  The following 2 items need to be checked:
1. Paths to icons/images that can appear flipped must be prefixed with $nl$/ 
(e.g. $nl$/ICON_PATH) - this includes paths to icons and images in plugin.xml.
2. Must use Platform.find(Bundle, Path) to create the URL that is used to 
create the image descriptor.
See Tod's Eclipse blog entry for more details on the code changes required. 
http://todcreaseyeclipse.blogspot.com/

NOTE: Only icons that have the possibility of being flipped need to have this 
prefix added - you can leave the paths of other icons as they are for 3.1.1 if 
you want to keep changes to a minimum.  You can get the BiDi nl fragments from 
Cam-Thu Le so that you can see which of your icons have a reversed counterpart 
in BiDi locales.  

The following plugins of this component have been identified as requiring this 
check:
*org.eclipse.externaltools 
*org.eclipse.ant.ui 

Questions about this issue can be directed to Karice McIntyre or Tod Creasey.