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Select Palette entry in code [message #245481]

Mon, 15 September 2008 06:43

Carsten Spieker

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi,

is it possible to select a palette tool entry in code? I want to make some
entries available with shortcuts.

Thanks for any help!

Greetz,
Carsten

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Re: Select Palette entry in code [message #245519 is a reply to message #245481]

Tue, 16 September 2008 08:57

Richard Adams

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Edinburgh

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What exactly do you want to do?
Is is to activate a creation tool without having to click on the palette?
You can set the active tool for the edit domain with

domain.setActiveTool(Tool tool)

which is essentially what is eventually called when you click on a
palette item.

The parameter tool would be that which is normally created by your
ToolEntry.createTool() method.

Richard

Dr Richard Adams, University of Edinburgh
http://richardadams606blog.blogspot.com/
http://csbe.bio.ed.ac.uk/adams.php

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Re: Select Palette entry in code [message #245572 is a reply to message #245519]

Wed, 17 September 2008 04:48

Carsten Spieker

Messages: 197
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Richard,

well this is what I have been looking for. Thank you very much!

Only Problem:
This code sets the active tool, but does not select the ToolEntry in the
palette viewer, so that the user can easily see that this tool
is selected. Maybe there is a special method for reaching this?

Greetz,
Carsten

"Richard Adams" <richard.adams@ed.ac.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:1023233db57a73c70f0b62b5e45696b4$1@www.eclipse.org...
> What exactly do you want to do?
> Is is to activate a creation tool without having to click on the palette?
> You can set the active tool for the edit domain with
>
> domain.setActiveTool(Tool tool)
>
> which is essentially what is eventually called when you click on a palette
> item.
>
> The parameter tool would be that which is normally created by your
> ToolEntry.createTool() method.
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>

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Re: Select Palette entry in code [message #245575 is a reply to message #245572]

Wed, 17 September 2008 10:34

Richard Adams

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Registered: July 2009
Location: Edinburgh

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Not sure - there are palette edit parts, possibly you can get the
PaletteViewer to select the palette editPart? This might trigger the whole
tool creation process and call the setACtiveTool() method I mentioned
before.
If you dig around in the PaletteViewer, PaletteEntry and ToolEntry
classes a solution is probably in there.

Cheers
Richard

Dr Richard Adams, University of Edinburgh
http://richardadams606blog.blogspot.com/
http://csbe.bio.ed.ac.uk/adams.php

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Re: Select Palette entry in code [message #245592 is a reply to message #245575]

Thu, 18 September 2008 04:57

Carsten Spieker

Messages: 197
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Well, yesterday I?ve already digged the whole day, without any result, I
must have beean some kind of blind.
Now I have tried the setActiveTool(ToolEntry entry) method in class
PaletteViewer. And it works!

Thanks a lot!

Carsten

"Richard Adams" <richard.adams@ed.ac.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:d488e611cb52a99896953aeae197261b$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Not sure - there are palette edit parts, possibly you can get the
> PaletteViewer to select the palette editPart? This might trigger the whole
> tool creation process and call the setACtiveTool() method I mentioned
> before.
> If you dig around in the PaletteViewer, PaletteEntry and ToolEntry classes
> a solution is probably in there.
>
> Cheers
> Richard
>

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