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GMF customization with EEF [message #1029355]

Fri, 29 March 2013 11:02

Valerian Merkling
Messages: 71
Registered: May 2011

Member

Hello !

I would like to use EEF to custom my GMF Diagram editor, but i'm missing the step where i tell Gmf that it need to use my newly generated classes.

I tried to have a look into the code, and the only result i had was to make the property tab empty ...

Can anyone help me ?

Regards,

Valerian Merkling

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Re: GMF customization with EEF [message #1032719 is a reply to message #1029355]

Wed, 03 April 2013 06:43

Michael Golubev
Messages: 370
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hello,

GMF does not know which plugin provides the property tabs for the editor, it just declares the contributor ID for someone who wants to provide its contents here. So there is no code in diagram plugin to change.

Instead, you need to reference this diagram controbutor ID from EEF plugin:
- in the diagram plugin. search for: org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyContributor extension, it will be like this:
Quote:

<extension point="org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyContributor" id="prop-contrib">
<?gmfgen generated="true"?>
<propertyContributor
contributorId="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.ocldriven.diagram"
labelProvider="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.ocldriven.toe.diagram.sheet.TOESheetLabelProvider">
<propertyCategory category="domain"/>
<propertyCategory category="visual"/>
<propertyCategory category="extra"/>
</propertyContributor>
</extension>

- note the contributorId (in bold)
- note one of the existing categories (in bold)
- copy/paste the "org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyTabs" and "org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertySections" extensions from EEF-generated plugin.xml fragment to the real plugin.xml for edit plugin (if you followed the EEF tutorial, you may already have one copy of these 2 extensions there for EMF tree editor)
- in the BOTH copy/pasted duplicated extensions replace the EEF contributorID to the GMF contributor id (first bold from step1), so in my sample it would be:

   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertySections">
      <propertySections
            contributorId="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.ocldriven.diagram">
       ...

   <extension
         point="org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyTabs">
      <propertyTabs
            contributorId="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.ocldriven.diagram">
      ...

- in the copy/pasted "org.eclipse.ui.views.properties.tabbed.propertyTabs" extension replace the category="<whatever>" by the actual category from GMF (second bold from step1 -- e.g "domain"):

      <propertyTabs
            contributorId="org.eclipse.gmf.examples.ocldriven.diagram">
         <propertyTab
               id="Base"
               label="EEF-Base"
               category="domain">
         </propertyTab>
         ....

I just made exactly these steps for GMF-T OCL/driven sample, and that all I needed to get an attached screenshot.

Attachment: EEF-for-TOE-sample
(Size: 173.01KB, Downloaded 46 times)

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Re: GMF customization with EEF [message #1124477 is a reply to message #1032719]

Thu, 03 October 2013 11:22

luca panebianco
Messages: 1
Registered: October 2013

Junior Member

Hi,
I've tried the steps before...but nothing happened...i have the default property view.

I've followed the "EMF tree editor example" and everything went ok..i continued creating a simple GMF diagram but the modification to the plugin.xml file inside the edit project did nothing....

There is any passage i forgot? Or something else that must to be done in order to see the EEF property view?

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