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diagram editor 4 GMF ... exists? [message #122553]

Mon, 30 April 2007 09:24

Eclipse User

Hi folks,

I'm new to GMF, but as soon as I started playing around with the GMF
tutorials I was wondering if there's no tool out there which makes
editing these *.gmfgraph / *.gmftool / *.gmfmap and *.gmfgen easier.
Maybe something similar to the ecore diagram editor for *.ecore files?

Another thing which bothers me is how to maintain changes in the
*.gmfgen file when changing other *.gmf* files.

With best regards
Stefan Kuhn

Re: diagram editor 4 GMF ... exists? [message #122566 is a reply to message #122553]

Mon, 30 April 2007 10:33

Eclipse User

Hello SKuhn,

> I'm new to GMF, but as soon as I started playing around with the GMF
> tutorials I was wondering if there's no tool out there which makes
> editing these *.gmfgraph / *.gmftool / *.gmfmap and *.gmfgen easier.
> Maybe something similar to the ecore diagram editor for *.ecore files?
Try org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.editor plugin from /cvsroot/modeling org.eclipse.gmf/plugins/org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.editor
this is an experimental graphical editor for .gmfgraph model.

> Another thing which bothers me is how to maintain changes in the
> *.gmfgen file when changing other *.gmf* files.
It should be possible to re-transform modified .gmfmap file to the same (existing)
..gmfgen.

-----------------
Alex Shatalin

Re: diagram editor 4 GMF ... exists? [message #129547 is a reply to message #122566]

Thu, 24 May 2007 11:04

Eclipse User

Dear Alex,

> It should be possible to re-transform modified .gmfmap file to the
> same (existing) .gmfgen.

In GMF Best Practices from EcliseCon2k7 from you ;) I've read on the
last page
"Currently user can modify GMFGen model directly and will loose all
modifications on next transformation.
In future: we’d like to make .gmfmap -> .gmfgen transformation
extensible so user will be able to modify transformatrion code directly.
(Transformation should be realized not on Java)"
Did the future already arrive? =) Is there a way to really protect my
changes?

Thanks for your help
stefan

Alex Shatalin schrieb:
> Hello SKuhn,
>
>> I'm new to GMF, but as soon as I started playing around with the GMF
>> tutorials I was wondering if there's no tool out there which makes
>> editing these *.gmfgraph / *.gmftool / *.gmfmap and *.gmfgen easier.
>> Maybe something similar to the ecore diagram editor for *.ecore files?
> Try org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.editor plugin from /cvsroot/modeling
> org.eclipse.gmf/plugins/org.eclipse.gmf.graphdef.editor this is an
> experimental graphical editor for .gmfgraph model.
>
>> Another thing which bothers me is how to maintain changes in the
>> *.gmfgen file when changing other *.gmf* files.
> It should be possible to re-transform modified .gmfmap file to the same
> (existing) .gmfgen.
> -----------------
> Alex Shatalin
>
>
>

Re: diagram editor 4 GMF ... exists? [message #130121 is a reply to message #129547]

Fri, 25 May 2007 06:02

Eclipse User

Hello SKuhn,

> Did the future already arrive? =) Is there a way to really protect my
> changes?
Unfortunately not yet ;-( If you are talking about such a kind of changes
(not only tuning some properties, but altering the structure of genmodel)
then possible soluition for now is to extend existing .java gmfgen->.gmfmap
transformer and adjust it in accordance or manually apply your modification
after each transformation..

-----------------
Alex Shatalin

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