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Dynamically extending the palette [message #663682]

Wed, 06 April 2011 08:09

Lior Missing name

Messages: 18
Registered: February 2011

Junior Member

Hello Everyone!
I have a model that contains a general EClass that serves as a node in the diagram (and of course, a tool in the diagram).
This general class has some parameters and attributes the user can set in runtime

I'd like to *dynamically* add to the palette more tools from the type of that EClass with some of its parameters and attributes already pre-set. (For example, if the general EClass was 'Fruit' I'd like to add more tools from the type 'Fruit' with their name set to 'Apples', 'Oranges', etc)

I've searched through google and the forum and found some references to solutions suggesting to implement IPaletteProvide as well as modifying generated code.

Since I'm pretty new to GMF, I'm having some trouble figuring out how exactly this process works. for example - where do I create the tools? where do I add them to the palette? where do I bind the created tools to the objects with their pre-set parameters?

If you happen to know a code example with some of the above , it would be great!
Thanks a lot
Lior

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Re: Dynamically extending the palette [message #664583 is a reply to message #663682]

Mon, 11 April 2011 09:56

Lior Missing name

Messages: 18
Registered: February 2011

Junior Member

OK Found a nice solution.
It is described here:
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.modeling.gmf/m sg14209.html

Basically , you dynamically create tools on the palette and set their attribute on creation time using SetCommand

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Re: Dynamically extending the palette [message #665298 is a reply to message #663682]

Thu, 14 April 2011 08:23

emil salageanu

Messages: 94
Registered: June 2010
Location: Nice, France

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Hi,
I'm very interested in this topic, thanks for the link Smile

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Re: Dynamically extending the palette [message #779711 is a reply to message #664583]

Mon, 16 January 2012 11:26

ganesh ram

Messages: 26
Registered: January 2012

Junior Member

The link above seems to be broken Sad

i have the same req as described above.

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Re: Dynamically extending the palette [message #1016717 is a reply to message #779711]

Thu, 07 March 2013 13:21

Vitaly Savickas

Messages: 62
Registered: March 2010

Member

I'd like to hear the solution as well. Please, anyone knows how to get to that broken link? Or a hint on a solution?

Regards,
Vitaly

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Re: Dynamically extending the palette [message #1016926 is a reply to message #1016717]

Fri, 08 March 2013 08:52

Aurélien Pupier

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

Senior Member

Hi,

perhaps it was this link: http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/51363/

If you want a sample on how to override the genrated code of the palette and then be able to plug what you want, you can take a look to BonitaSoft code here

regards,

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

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