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[Eugenia] Palette Icons and Iterative Development Process [message #550941]

Wed, 04 August 2010 16:14

Toñi Reina

Messages: 209
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi all,

I'm developing an editor with Eugenia iteratively, meaning that I
have to regenerate all the stuff too many times.

The procedure I have found to change the default icons in the palette
is to rewrite the gif files that are generated in the icons\full\obj16
directory belonging to the metamodel.edit plugin. However, as I have to
regenerate many times, this rewriting is error-prone, cause many times I
forget to rewrite the icons.

I was wondering if there is a more automatic way of changing this
icons. I have tried the tool.small.path and tool.small.bundle
properties, but I have no satisfactory results, because icons disappear.
I don't know if the problems are due to the location of icons. I have
created a directory named icons under the metamodel proyect, as follows:

metamodel
|---src
|---icon
|---obj16
|---model
|---metamodel.emf

Thanks in advance,

Toñi

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Re: [Eugenia] Palette Icons and Iterative Development Process [message #551101 is a reply to message #550941]

Thu, 05 August 2010 09:00

Louis Rose

Messages: 440
Registered: July 2009
Location: York, United Kingdom

Senior Member

Hi Toni,

As you suggested, the tool.small.path and tool.small.bundle annotations can be used to specify icons for the palette.

tool.small.bundle should be set to the name of the bundle (project) that contains the icons.

tool.small.path should be set to the path of the icon relative to the root of the bundle.

So, if we have a bundle called "org.example.icons" and we have an icon directory at the top-level of the bundle, the following annotations can be used:

@gmf.node(label=..., tool.small.bundle="org.example.icons", tool.small.path="icon/OurIcon.png")

Cheers,
Louis.

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Re: [Eugenia] Palette Icons and Iterative Development Process [message #551128 is a reply to message #551101]

Thu, 05 August 2010 10:36

Toñi Reina

Messages: 209
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Louis,

thanks to your explanations, I have realized that I haven't
understood the tool.small.bundle property, as I wasn't writing the name
of the project.

Best regards,
Toñi

El 05/08/2010 11:00, Louis Rose escribió:
> Hi Toni,
>
> As you suggested, the tool.small.path and tool.small.bundle annotations
> can be used to specify icons for the palette.
>
> tool.small.bundle should be set to the name of the bundle (project) that
> contains the icons.
>
> tool.small.path should be set to the path of the icon relative to the
> root of the bundle.
>
> So, if we have a bundle called "org.example.icons" and we have an icon
> directory at the top-level of the bundle, the following annotations can
> be used:
>
> @gmf.node(label=..., tool.small.bundle="org.example.icons",
> tool.small.path="icon/OurIcon.png")
>
> Cheers,
> Louis.

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