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How to get a corresponding view to an element [message #520023]

Wed, 10 March 2010 21:02

Pavol

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Registered: March 2010

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Hi,

at first I will explain my situation.

I have one node A, which contains another two nodes B and C (as compartments). B and C are at the same "level". I am able to create nodes D inside of B and C.

If I create node D as a child in C, I have to automatically create another instance of node D also in B.

I am trying to do this in the class myDiagramViewProvider in the createD method.

At first I create another domain element for node D. Then I need to create a view for that element. And for that purpose I need a containerView of node B. I am able to get domain element for node B.

Is there a way how to get corresponding view to this domain element?

I was trying to call

ViewUtil.getViewContainer(domain_element_of_B)

, but it always returned null.

Thanks a lot.

Pavol.

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Re: How to get a corresponding view to an element [message #520220 is a reply to message #520023]

Thu, 11 March 2010 15:28

Matthias M.

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Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hi Pavol,

I think you should better put the creation of your second D into your DEditHelper (which you perhaps have to create and register).
This is where "i-have-to-do-something-if-something-else-is-changed"-operations should generally be put.

Besides you only have to create the model-element of D and add it to the right containment-feature. GMF will handle the creation of the EditPart and therefore of the View on its own.

If that doesn't help you:
There is a findEditPart-method in each GraphicalEditPart. So, if you can somehow get the A-EditPart (EditPartRegistry??), you can get the B-EditPart and from that the B-View.

Regards
Matthias

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Re: How to get a corresponding view to an element [message #520239 is a reply to message #520220]

Thu, 11 March 2010 16:39

Pavol

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Registered: March 2010

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Matthias M. wrote on Thu, 11 March 2010 16:28

I think you should better put the creation of your second D into your DEditHelper (which you perhaps have to create and register).
This is where "i-have-to-do-something-if-something-else-is-changed"-operations should generally be put.

Thanks, I will try it, but I think that there will always be the problem with getting the right view.

Matthias M. wrote on Thu, 11 March 2010 16:28

Besides you only have to create the model-element of D and add it to the right containment-feature. GMF will handle the creation of the EditPart and therefore of the View on its own.

I think, you are wrong here. I already tried this. I created model-element through MyDiagramFactory.eINSTANCE.createD() and then I set the containment-feature. Well - GMF created the model-element and also the View properly. But I guess, there is something wrong with the View serialization. Because if I close and re-open the editor, the View will not be constructed properly again. Therefore I suppose that the View have to be created with appropriate method from the class MyDiagramViewProvider.

Matthias M. wrote on Thu, 11 March 2010 16:28

If that doesn't help you:
There is a findEditPart-method in each GraphicalEditPart. So, if you can somehow get the A-EditPart (EditPartRegistry??), you can get the B-EditPart and from that the B-View.

I don't know how to get EditPartRegistry. But I will keep trying ...

Thanks.

Pavol.

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Re: How to get a corresponding view to an element [message #520597 is a reply to message #520239]

Sat, 13 March 2010 01:50

Pavol

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Registered: March 2010

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I override the method

 ICommand getConfigureCommand(ConfigureRequest req)

inside the appropriate EditHelper class.

Now I want to create some domain element and a corresponding View to it. I created

 .. CreateViewAndElementRequest createReq ..

but I cannot get the right Command from createReq.

Any Help how to get the right Command from CreateViewAndElementRequest ? or how to get EditPart?

Thanks.

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