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[OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #123253]

Mon, 17 April 2006 19:42

SebastiÃ¡n Gurin

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Registered: July 2009

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Hi.

First of all excuse me for my bad english. I think this is not a VE
question, but I don't know where else to ask. I also have tried to ask
this in the GEF newsgroup but they didn't reply.

I know that the Visual Editor was developed using GEF (graphic eclipse
framework). Well, I'm developing a visual editor using GEF and I need to
add swing or swt widgets to the editor. But as I know, GEF only let me add
IFigures. I would like to know how you add swing and swt components in VE
using GEF. I looked in VE source code, but I couldn't find the gef edit
parts corresponding to any swing/swt widget.

Well, hope you understand. Thanks in advance.

Sebastián Gurin

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #123266 is a reply to message #123253]

Mon, 17 April 2006 20:07

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: richkulp.us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com

The VE doesn't add Swing/SWT to GEF. It uses IFigures and gets a
snapshot image of the Swing/SWT component and gives it to an IFigure
that takes an Image.

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Thanks,
Rich Kulp

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #123276 is a reply to message #123266]

Mon, 17 April 2006 15:46

SebastiÃ¡n Gurin

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Thanks. that really will help me.

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:07:56 -0400
Rich Kulp <richkulp@us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com> wrote:

> The VE doesn't add Swing/SWT to GEF. It uses IFigures and gets a
> snapshot image of the Swing/SWT component and gives it to an IFigure
> that takes an Image.

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #123440 is a reply to message #123266]

Wed, 19 April 2006 13:44

SebastiÃ¡n Gurin

Messages: 43
Registered: July 2009

Member

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 16:07:56 -0400
Rich Kulp <richkulp@us.NO_SPAM.ibm.com> wrote:

> The VE doesn't add Swing/SWT to GEF. It uses IFigures and gets a
> snapshot image of the Swing/SWT component and gives it to an IFigure
> that takes an Image.
>

First of all, thanks Rich for the info. I would like more information about how to take these "snapshots". Basically I would like to take snapshots to swing widgets. I'm investigating the java.awt.Component's createImage() methods, but I really don't know how to use them. I know this is an OT, but I would apprecciate if somebody tell me what is the Visual Editor plugin class responsible for taking these "snapshots" to the swing components.

Well, thanks in advance.

> --
> Thanks,
> Rich Kulp

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #123450 is a reply to message #123440]

Wed, 19 April 2006 19:06

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: jefmyers.us.ibm.com

The image capture for Swing is done by the class ImageDataCollector in
the org.eclipse.ve.jfc plug-in:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.jfc/ vm_jfcvm/org/eclipse/ve/internal/jfc/vm/ImageDataCollector.j ava?rev=1.11&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type=text /vnd.viewcvs-markup

Specifically the call that does the magic is Component.printAll(Graphics
g):
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Component.h tml#printAll(java.awt.Graphics)

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #123711 is a reply to message #123450]

Fri, 21 April 2006 14:10

SebastiÃ¡n Gurin

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First of all, thank you very much to Jeff for the links. Lamentably, I could'n extract
the VE part that "take the snapshot" to swing components (good code but so complex!).

Nevertheless, I have developed some classes that construct a draw2d ImageFigure from
any swing component, but I think is less efficient that VE mechanism. I use a standar
format (png) for the transition of AWT BufferedImage to SWT Image but this transition
is done in memory, so the efficience is yet aceptable. People interested can download
this classes from http://cancerbero.0moola.com/source/swingInGEF.zip.

Sadudos!

--
Cancerbero

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:06:48 -0400
Jeff Myers <jefmyers@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> The image capture for Swing is done by the class ImageDataCollector in
> the org.eclipse.ve.jfc plug-in:
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.jfc/ vm_jfcvm/org/eclipse/ve/internal/jfc/vm/ImageDataCollector.j ava?rev=1.11&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type=text /vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> Specifically the call that does the magic is Component.printAll(Graphics
> g):
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Component.h tml#printAll(java.awt.Graphics)
>
> Hope this helps,
> - Jeff

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #612667 is a reply to message #123253]

Mon, 17 April 2006 20:07

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #612669 is a reply to message #123266]

Mon, 17 April 2006 15:46

SebastiÃ¡n Gurin

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Registered: July 2009

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #612699 is a reply to message #123266]

Wed, 19 April 2006 13:44

SebastiÃ¡n Gurin

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #612701 is a reply to message #123440]

Wed, 19 April 2006 19:06

Jeff Myers

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Registered: July 2009

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The image capture for Swing is done by the class ImageDataCollector in
the org.eclipse.ve.jfc plug-in:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.jfc/ vm_jfcvm/org/eclipse/ve/internal/jfc/vm/ImageDataCollector.j ava?rev=1.11&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type=text /vnd.viewcvs-markup

Specifically the call that does the magic is Component.printAll(Graphics
g):
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Component.h tml#printAll(java.awt.Graphics)

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

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Re: [OT] insert swing or swt widgets in gef editor [message #612736 is a reply to message #123450]

Fri, 21 April 2006 14:10

SebastiÃ¡n Gurin

Messages: 43
Registered: July 2009

Member

First of all, thank you very much to Jeff for the links. Lamentably, I could'n extract
the VE part that "take the snapshot" to swing components (good code but so complex!).

Nevertheless, I have developed some classes that construct a draw2d ImageFigure from
any swing component, but I think is less efficient that VE mechanism. I use a standar
format (png) for the transition of AWT BufferedImage to SWT Image but this transition
is done in memory, so the efficience is yet aceptable. People interested can download
this classes from http://cancerbero.0moola.com/source/swingInGEF.zip

Sadudos!

--
Cancerbero

On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:06:48 -0400
Jeff Myers <jefmyers@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> The image capture for Swing is done by the class ImageDataCollector in
> the org.eclipse.ve.jfc plug-in:
> http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.jfc/ vm_jfcvm/org/eclipse/ve/internal/jfc/vm/ImageDataCollector.j ava?rev=1.11&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type=text /vnd.viewcvs-markup
>
> Specifically the call that does the magic is Component.printAll(Graphics
> g):
> http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/api/java/awt/Component.h tml#printAll(java.awt.Graphics)
>
> Hope this helps,
> - Jeff

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