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Styled Text for EMF generated editors? [message #622292]

Tue, 09 March 2010 15:19

Atanas Pavlov

Messages: 10
Registered: October 2009

Junior Member

Hi guys,

Is it possible to somehow use StyledText for the labels in the EMF generated editors. I would like to have different colors for the different labels and/or different parts of the labels (e.g. like in the OutlineView for a Java file, one can see:
getText(Object): String
where getText(Object) is in black color and String is in grey color)
I searched a lot and could not find any information about it, neither any example which had this feature. So I guess the answer is no, but as I believe that would significantly improve the visual representation of information, I decided to ask just in case.

Cheers,
Atanas

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Re: Styled Text for EMF generated editors? [message #622298 is a reply to message #622292]

Tue, 09 March 2010 19:21

Sven Efftinge

Messages: 1823
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Xtext supports StyledText all over the place. But I guess that's not
what you were asking for :-)

Sven

Atanas Pavlov schrieb:
> Hi guys,
>
> Is it possible to somehow use StyledText for the labels in the EMF
> generated editors. I would like to have different colors for the
> different labels and/or different parts of the labels (e.g. like in the
> OutlineView for a Java file, one can see:
> getText(Object): String
> where getText(Object) is in black color and String is in grey color)
> I searched a lot and could not find any information about it, neither
> any example which had this feature. So I guess the answer is no, but as
> I believe that would significantly improve the visual representation of
> information, I decided to ask just in case.
>
> Cheers,
> Atanas

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Re: Styled Text for EMF generated editors? [message #622302 is a reply to message #622292]

Wed, 10 March 2010 09:25

Sven Krause

Messages: 119
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi Atanas,

you simply need to provide a "StyledLabelProvider" wrapping/extending
the generated AdapterFactory based one. There you have the freedom to
implement the IFontProvider, IColorProvider and what else interfaces as
your controls requires/supports. This styled label provider may know its
usage (e.g. outline, editor etc.). You can combine this strategie as
well with the CommonNavigators decoration technique.

Sven

PS: (advertising)
We did this way in the emft.mtf project (former flowr.org) and provided
an extension point allowing the style customization for dedicated items
or usages (we named this usecase).

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