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Decorators on Connections [message #903265] Wed, 22 August 2012 14:43 Go to next message
Rob Cernich is currently offline Rob Cernich
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Hey all,

I was wondering if there was any way to add a IDecorator to a connection? I'm adding problem decorators onto my shapes (which is great) and would like to do the same for connections. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
Rob

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Re: Decorators on Connections [message #903300 is a reply to message #903265] Wed, 22 August 2012 22:02 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Rob Cernich is currently offline Rob Cernich
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I've worked around the issue by adding a ConnectionDecorator containing an invisible rectangle to the connection. The problem decorator is then attached to the ConnectionDecorator. Works like a charm.

Best,
Rob

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Re: Decorators on Connections [message #903708 is a reply to message #903300] Thu, 23 August 2012 08:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michael Wenz is currently offline Michael Wenz
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Rob,

Graphiti supports decorators only for shapes not for the connections. The
reason is simply that we need some "room" to draw the decorator into, at
least with the current implementation.

If you would like to have that feature available also for connections, feel
free to open an enhancement bugzilla for this.

Michael

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Re: Decorators on Connections [message #1053247 is a reply to message #903300] Fri, 03 May 2013 07:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Marek Jagielski is currently offline Marek Jagielski
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Rob,
Can you more describe your work around. I'm adding in AddMyConnectionFeature:

ConnectionDecorator dec = peCreateService.createConnectionDecorator(connection, false, 1.0, true);
gaService.createInvisibleRectangle(dec);


With which pe I should be notified in:
public IDecorator[] getDecorators(PictogramElement pe)


Thanks,

Marek

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Re: Decorators on Connections [message #1059069 is a reply to message #1053247] Thu, 16 May 2013 09:59 Go to previous message
Marek Jagielski is currently offline Marek Jagielski
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There is such a functionality available in Eugenia as I can see in the tutorial.
http://www.eclipse.org/epsilon/doc/articles/eugenia-gmf-tutorial/
http://www.eclipse.org/epsilon/doc/articles/eugenia-gmf-tutorial/Filesystemwitherrorshighlighted.png
It can be useful to see for eventual enhancement. I made a workaround also (adding decorator to connected port), but in future maybe I will open an enhancement bugzilla or contribute to this.
Marek

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