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View Factories are not generated any more [message #637255]

Thu, 04 November 2010 18:06

Pitt

Messages: 3
Registered: October 2010

Junior Member

Hi,

I am migrating an older GMF application to GMF 2.3. In this application there is a generated package xxx.views.factories in the diagram plug-in with xxxViewFactory classes. There are customized decorateView() methods setting default background colors for the shapes.

After regenerating the diagram code in GMF 2.3 this package is missing. Does anyone know where to put the code now?

The 'GMF 2.2 New and Noteworthy' document just says 'ViewFactories are history' but that's it. The related bugzilla entry has no useful information for me.

Is there any documentation about which part of GMF 2.2/2.3 replaced the view factories?

Thank you for answers,

Pitt

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Re: View Factories are not generated any more [message #637595 is a reply to message #637255]

Sun, 07 November 2010 14:30

Aurélien Pupier

Messages: 637
Registered: July 2009
Location: Grenoble, FRANCE

Senior Member

Hi,

I don't know about these olds viewFactories but if you want to have background color for shapes you can set it in gmfgraph definition

Regards,

Aurélien Pupier - Red Hat
Senior Software Engineer in Fuse Tooling team

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Re: View Factories are not generated any more [message #637995 is a reply to message #637595]

Tue, 09 November 2010 15:08

Pitt

Messages: 3
Registered: October 2010

Junior Member

Hi Aurelien,

thank you very much for your suggestion!

I'm sorry, I did not mentioned the background colors are not fixed. There exist several color modes. The custom code of the view factories set the background color dependent on which of the modes is set.

However, in the xxx.diagram.providers package is a generated class xxxViewProvider. I put the custom code in the createxxx() methods of this class and it works as expected. But I am not sure, if this is the 'right' way.

Regards,

Pitt

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