On 7/2/2009 12:56 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote: > Andy Black wrote: > >> Has anyone else run into the following issue? >> >> I am trying to show an icon in a custom menu item (that is, it's in my >> configuration files). If I put the graphic file in the XXE installation >> directory addon\config\common\icons, then the icon shows up, but if I >> put in with my other configuration files, the icon does not show. >> >> For example, if I have >> >> <cfg:item command="myCommand" label="_My label" >> icon="xxe-config:common/icons/myicon.png"/> >> >> the icon renders in my menu, but if I use >> >> <cfg:item command="myCommand" label="_My label" >> icon="%c/configuration/myicon.png"/> >> >> the icon does not show. >> >> Any ideas as to what am I not understanding here? >> >> > > * Variable "%c" is substituted only in macro and process commands. > <cfg:item> is part of a menu and not of a command. > > * Unlike "%c", "xxe-config:" is not a variable. An URL like > "xxe-config:common/icons/myicon.png" works (almost) everywhere simply > because XXE_install_dir/addon/config/catalog.xml contains: > > --- > <rewriteURI uriStartString="xxe-config:" rewritePrefix="." /> > --- > > * Variable "%c" is not needed in the above case. Simply use an URL which > is *relative* to the URL of the file containing the <cfg:item> element. >
Thanks so much, Hussein, for the good clarifications! The latter made it work just fine. --Andy
