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Supporting free floating connectors [message #487948]

Fri, 25 September 2009 00:42

Travis London

Messages: 14
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello All,

I am trying to determine the best approach for supporting a symbol which represents a line that can have bendpoints and be moved around the diagram. I think at this point the quickest approach would be to use a PolylineConnection, and add some custom move support (ctrl + mouse down and drag). However in the gmfmap model I must specify some target and source elements. So I thought I'd try and make the target and source the diagram element (termination on diagram), but this did not seem to work. If a node was used I'd have to create a custom node edit part that can be bent.

Can anybody offer some suggestions here? If it cannot be done using the existing gmfmap model support and code generation, can you point me in the right direction for extending the templates and ecore model to have custom figures supported?

Thanks,
Travis London

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Re: Supporting free floating connectors [message #488179 is a reply to message #487948]

Fri, 25 September 2009 18:47

Alex Shatalin

Messages: 141
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hello Travis,

I suggest you to create temporary node and use it as an end of the connection.
You can display this node as a "dot", so it will be not visible..

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Alex Shatalin

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