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Eclipse Community Forums[Eugenia] Subdiagrams
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I just started with Eugenia and I am really impressed how quickly I was able to create a DSL, after having spent days before with "raw" GMF.
Now I was wondering whether it was possible to do subdiagrams with Eugenia. For example, I'm thinking about state machines where you can expand a composite state into a second diagram with its details. Or think of a network topology with routers, connections, etc. in a top-level diagram, and routing tables, NAT settings in subdiagrams for each router.
I once was able to get subdiagrams of the same type as the parent diagram working (it was a couple of settings in the gmfmap), but never got subdiagrams of different types working. It required a really ugly workaround with two sets of gmfmap, gmftool, and gmfgen. http://wiki.eclipse.org/Diagram_Partitioning
If you ever got the different subdiagram type working (I didn't), you could never use the generators again if you made changes to your DSL :( So I figured, Eugenia would be predestined for subdiagram support because all the GMF artifacts are completely regenerated after changes to the DSL.
I didn't see any annotations in the Eugenia reference that would support that feature. Has anybody done that before (maybe with a couple of those generated code overrides, forgot the name)? Or is this maybe a planned feature?
Thanks a lot, Christoph]]>Christoph Wienands2009-10-30T12:51:02-00:00