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DnD - several transfer classes? [message #448614]

Wed, 12 January 2005 03:42

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: tom_edwards.hotmail.com

I already posted this question in the tool builders forum but now I
realise that this newsgroup might be more appropriate.

I have a question concerning Drag and Drop with jFace viewers. I have a
view with an jface tree viewer displaying DBCollection and DBObject
objects (DBCollection is a sub class of DBObject). Now I would like to
drag these object to table viewers located in other views. Some table
viewers only accept DBCollections whereas others only accept DBObjects
which are not DBCollections.

What I did is so far: I wrote my own transfer classes for DBObject and one
for DBCollection, but what happens is that always the DBObject transfer
class is used (probably since DBCollection is a sub class of DBObject). So
how can I manage to choose what transfer class should be used? Or is there
another solution to find out if the user is dragging an object of type
DBObject or DBCollection? Thanks for your help. In the tutorials I found
they always drag only objects of a single type.
Tom

Re: DnD - several transfer classes? [message #448621 is a reply to message #448614]

Wed, 12 January 2005 08:50

Eclipse User

When you are subclassing, you must be careful about a couple of things:

1) Each subclass must have a unique ID - you can not inherit the type name
or type id from the super.
2) Make sure you implement getInstance to return an instance of the correct
subclass
3) Be careful about calling super in javaToNative or nativeToJava - you may
need to provide additional methods that the subclass can override.

Here is a modified version of snippet79 which shows an example of this:

http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.swt.sni ppets/src/org/eclipse/swt/snippets/Snippet171.java?rev=HEAD& amp;content-type=text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

"Tom Edwards" <tom_edwards@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:cs2nto$f38$1@www.eclipse.org...
>I already posted this question in the tool builders forum but now I realise
>that this newsgroup might be more appropriate.
>
> I have a question concerning Drag and Drop with jFace viewers. I have a
> view with an jface tree viewer displaying DBCollection and DBObject
> objects (DBCollection is a sub class of DBObject). Now I would like to
> drag these object to table viewers located in other views. Some table
> viewers only accept DBCollections whereas others only accept DBObjects
> which are not DBCollections.
>
> What I did is so far: I wrote my own transfer classes for DBObject and one
> for DBCollection, but what happens is that always the DBObject transfer
> class is used (probably since DBCollection is a sub class of DBObject). So
> how can I manage to choose what transfer class should be used? Or is there
> another solution to find out if the user is dragging an object of type
> DBObject or DBCollection? Thanks for your help. In the tutorials I found
> they always drag only objects of a single type.
> Tom
>
>

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