Can I specify a custom widget icon?
Power users and administrators can add an attribute to
the palleteItem
element in a widget's extension.xml
definition to specify a custom icon to use in the sidebar view/title
bar.
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The
viewImageURL
attribute
value in the widget's extension.xml file must contain a URL to the
desired image, for example:viewImageUrl="http://my.server.com/myImage.ico"
Example widget XML syntax is shown below:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<webcontextConfiguration version="1.1">
palleteItem allowMutlipleSidebars="true" contributeToSideshelfOnStartup="false"
id="1140471160" viewImageUrl="http://my.server.com/myImage.ico"
imageUrl="http://www.google.com/favicon.ico" providerId="com.ibm.rcp.toolbox.web.provider.WebServicesPalleteProvider"
title="rg - Google Search"
url="http://www.google.com/#hl=en&source=hp&q=rg&btnG=Google+Search&aq=f&aqi=&oq=&fp=a048890d3c90c6fc">
<preferences>
<preference name="q">
value>rg</value>
displayName>q</displayName>
enumValues/>
enumDisplayValues/>
datatype></datatype>
isEnum>false</isEnum>
isRequired>true</isRequired>
isHidden>false</isHidden>
/preference>
/preferences>
data>
authForm/>
/data>
/palleteItem>
/webcontextConfiguration>