Icon

Icons can be used to assign symbols to elements and actions. This helps in the differentiation of the displayed types at run time, or for orientation in context menus, table views, tree views and so forth.

Modeled icons can appear, for example, in the following places at run time:

A function package provider has the possibility to support directly the icons for elements which belong to a linked element type.

Example: The Eclipse function package supports all icons which are used for Eclipse resources (projects, folders, and files), so it is not necessary to create those icons in the AWM model editor.

A function package provider has the possibility to support additional icons which can be used in the AWM model editor. Those icons are typically used to add icons to actions.

Example: The Micro Focus Enterprise Developer Icons function package supports icons which can be used as action icons to create new Micro Focus projects.

Icons are modeled by being defined once and then referenced in the Element Type or Action Descriptor.

There are two available icon types: