| Drag and Drop issue --TransferDropTargetListener [message #215348] |
Sun, 30 April 2006 14:11 |
 Jan Vereecken
Messages: 1
Registered: July 2009 |
Junior Member |
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I will start with briefly describing what I'm trying to achieve. My
application consists of a NormTreeEditPart that is the root EditPart of
a GraphicalEditor. The NormTreeEditPart has TermEditParts as its
children. What I want now is that when I drag text from anywhere in the
system on the TermEditPart, a certain command (I named it
RenameTermCommand) gets executed. Currently I always get the forbidden
sign when I drag text from anywhere to my EditParts (and in fact
anywhere on the editor). I'm looking for clues, answers, tiny details I
forgot, all comments are greatly appriciated.
Following the example on the GEF project page, I started implementing.
First things first so I started with creating a
TextTransferDropTargetListener (which is the same as in the Logic
example).
/** ## BEGIN CODE ## **/
public class TextTransferDropTargetListener extends
AbstractTransferDropTargetListener
{
public TextTransferDropTargetListener(EditPartViewer viewer, Transfer xfer) {
super(viewer, xfer);
}
protected Request createTargetRequest() {
return new NativeDropRequest();
}
protected NativeDropRequest getNativeDropRequest() {
return (NativeDropRequest)getTargetRequest();
}
protected void updateTargetRequest(){
getNativeDropRequest().setData(getCurrentEvent().data);
}
}
/** ## END CODE ## **/
The NativeDropRequest is also copied from the logic example.
/** ## BEGIN CODE ## **/
public class NativeDropRequest extends Request {
private Object data;
public static final String ID = "$Native Drop Request";//$NON-NLS-1$
public NativeDropRequest() {
super(ID);
}
public NativeDropRequest(Object type) {
super(type);
}
public Object getData(){
return data;
}
public void setData(Object data){
this.data = data;
}
}
/** ## END CODE ## **/
In the initializeGraphicalViewer method of the
GraphicalEditorWithFlyoutPalette I register my DropTargetListener :
/** ## BEGIN CODE ## **/
protected void initializeGraphicalViewer() {
super.initializeGraphicalViewer();
getGraphicalViewer().addDropTargetListener(new
TextTransferDropTargetListener(getGraphicalViewer(),
TextTransfer.getInstance()));
}
/** ## END CODE ## **/
So far so good I guess (the code is mostly copied from the working
logic example). Now things get fussy. I guess that, in order to get the
drop working on my TermEditPart, I have to install (multiple?)
EditPolicies.
In order to create my Command (the RenameTermCommand), I created a
DndTermEditPolicy class, that when given a NativeDropRequests returns a
Command object. I have to note that this code NEVER gets called (using
the debug mode with setting break points).
/** ## BEGIN CODE ## **/
public class DndTermEditPolicy extends ComponentEditPolicy {
public Command getCommand(Request req) {
if (NativeDropRequest.ID.equals(req.getType())) {
return getDropTextCommand((NativeDropRequest)req);
} else {
return super.getCommand(req);
}
}
protected Command getDropTextCommand(NativeDropRequest request) {
RenameTermCommand command = new
RenameTermCommand((Term)getHost().getModel(),
(String)request.getData());
return command;
}
public EditPart getTargetEditPart(Request request) {
if (NativeDropRequest.ID.equals(request.getType()))
return getHost();
return super.getTargetEditPart(request);
}
}
/** ## END CODE ## **/
The last step is installing the editpolicy on my TermEditPart.
/** ## BEGIN CODE ## **/
protected void createEditPolicies() {
super.createEditPolicies();
installEditPolicy(EditPolicy.GRAPHICAL_NODE_ROLE, new DndTermEditPolicy());
}
/** ## END CODE ## **/
This is what I think is necessary to get this (rather simple) drag and
drop operation going. Do I need to install more EditPolicies on the
EditPart? Do I need to install certain EditPolicies on the host parent
(NormTreeEditPart)? Did I forget to do other things.
ANY help is greatly appreciated. If I forgot listing certain
(important) parts of the code be sure to ask for them.
Anyone who read until this point, I thank you ;).
Greetings,
Jan
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