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linking a help context to a model feature and the property dialog [message #696753]

Thu, 14 July 2011 18:58

Greg Jansen

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Registered: July 2010

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I'd really like to give my users a help icon within certain property dialogs of my model. I am using GMF to generate an editor, but I think the dialog used in this context is coming from vanilla EMF.Edit. It is a dialog that lets you edit a multi-value string feature.

I found a way to decorate the particular ItemPropertyDescriptor within my ItemProvider such that it will return a String on getHelpContextIDs. How can I link this context to a button within the dialog. Do I have to implement my own dialog class?

Many thanks,
Greg

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Re: linking a help context to a model feature and the property dialog [message #696772 is a reply to message #696753]

Thu, 14 July 2011 19:10

Ed Merks

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Greg, 
 
I guess you'd have to extend the FeatureEditorDialog to add the
button: 
<blockquote><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/EMF/Recipes#Recipe:_Create_your_own_property_editor_in_a_generated_application">http://wiki.eclipse.org/EMF/Recipes#Recipe:_Create_your_own_property_editor_in_a_generated_application</a> 
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On 14/07/2011 11:58 AM, Greg Jansen wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:ivndlu$8d9$1@news.eclipse.org" type="cite">I'd
really like to give my users a help icon within certain property
dialogs of my model. I am using GMF to generate an editor, but I
think the dialog used in this context is coming from vanilla
EMF.Edit. It is a dialog that lets you edit a multi-value string
feature.
 
 
I found a way to decorate the particular ItemPropertyDescriptor
within my ItemProvider such that it will return a String on
getHelpContextIDs. How can I make link this context to a button
within the dialog. Do I have to implement my own dialog class?
 
 
Many thanks,
 
Greg
 
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Ed Merks
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