Eclipse Community Forums: Graphiti » Changing the colour of existing shapes (gradient start/stop?)

Home » Modeling » Graphiti » Changing the colour of existing shapes (gradient start/stop?)

Changing the colour of existing shapes (gradient start/stop?) [message #1738685]

Fri, 22 July 2016 04:53

Eclipse User

Hi,

I'm looking for a programmatic way to modify the gradients for existing shapes in a diagram. I have got as far as understanding how to set the foreground and background for a shape, with:

EList<Shape> shapes = diagram.getChildren();
IColorConstant E_CLASS_FOREGROUND = new ColorConstant(255, 178, 21); // orange
IGaService service = GraphitiUi.getGaService();
for (Shape shape : shapes) {
    GraphicsAlgorithm ga = shape.getGraphicsAlgorithm();	
    ga.setLineStyle(LineStyle.DOT);
    ga.setFilled(true);
    ga.setForeground(manageColor(IColorConstant.GREEN));
    ga.setBackground(service.manageColor(diagram, E_CLASS_FOREGROUND));
}

Which modifies all shapes to have this appearance:

http://www.macs.hw.ac.uk/~rs46/files/graphiti-shape-colour.png

I am following the "Styles" and "Color Schemes" documentation pages here:

http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.graphiti.doc%2Fresources%2Fdocu%2Fgfw%2Fstyles.htm

In order to change the colour of the entire shape, my understanding is that I need to gradient start and stop values, is that correct? E.g. to change the colour of all shapes to green, I was hoping to have this kind of API usage:

for (Shape shape : shapes) {
    GraphicsAlgorithm ga = shape.getGraphicsAlgorithm();	
    ga.setGradientStart(manageColor(IColorConstant.GREEN));
    ga.setGradientStop(manageColor(IColorConstant.GREEN));
}

I cannot find such API methods. What are the API methods to change the entire colour of an existing shape in a diagram?

Re: Changing the colour of existing shapes (gradient start/stop?) [message #1740114 is a reply to message #1738685]

Tue, 09 August 2016 08:10

Eclipse User

Rob,

not sure what exactly you try to do.

For setting just one color for the entire shape you need to set the background color for the shape with setBackgroundColor(...). The way you do the retrieval of the shapes in the snippet above will therfore do that for all root shapes, but not for any child shapes embedded within.

For setting a gradient (a smooth change form one to another color within the shape) you will need to define more than the gradient start and end. For details on that see the docu at http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.graphiti.doc%2Fresources%2Fdocu%2Fgfw%2Fstyles.htm .

HTH,
Michael

Previous Topic:	Create svg from diagram programmtically
Next Topic:	Graphiti API should have similar method like isStayActiveAfterExecution for IObjectCreationToolEntry

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

Current Time: Mon Apr 21 02:21:58 EDT 2025

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter