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Setting scroll position programmatically seems to fail [message #646150]

Wed, 22 December 2010 06:45

Eclipse User

I want to click on an item in one editor and have it open a different GEF editor associated with the clicked-on item and position (by scolling) the GEF editor so that the editPart's figure that corresponds to the clicked item is visible: sometimes the code needs to scroll the GEF editor Viewport so that the selected item is visible. I can figure out where to scroll to, but when I invoke scrollVerticalTo() on the ScrollPane to try to do the scroll nothing happens.

Is there a different/better/correct way to do this?

Re: Setting scroll position programmatically seems to fail [message #646153 is a reply to message #646150]

Wed, 22 December 2010 06:55

Eclipse User

Use this in your graphical editor

getGraphicalViewer().reveal(editpart)

Re: Setting scroll position programmatically seems to fail [message #646156 is a reply to message #646150]

Wed, 22 December 2010 07:12

Eclipse User

Many thanks! That does work, but it places the object at the very bottom of the viewing area: a long shot better than nothing but not ideal since the context (above and below) the object is useful for the user to see -- Do I then need to invoke the scrolling after this to get it moved up a bit?

Re: Setting scroll position programmatically seems to fail [message #646160 is a reply to message #646156]

Wed, 22 December 2010 08:13

Eclipse User

See the below snippet. This tries to scroll the canvas to a point which is 100 units away from the initial bounds(x,y). You can modify it based on your requirement.

			IFigure target = ((GraphicalEditPart)editPart).getFigure();
			FigureCanvas figureCanvas = (FigureCanvas)getGraphicalViewer().getControl();
			figureCanvas.scrollTo(target.getBounds().x - 100 , target.getBounds().y - 100);

Re: Setting scroll position programmatically seems to fail [message #646166 is a reply to message #646150]

Wed, 22 December 2010 08:58

Eclipse User

It worked! Many thanks indeed.

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