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Place a custom figure into a compartment [message #922697] Tue, 25 September 2012 08:42 Go to next message
Chris B. is currently offline Chris B.Friend
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Hi,

for some reasons I have to insert a custom figure, which is actually an image (pointing to a class that extends ImageFigure), into a compartment. How can I achieve this, if at all possible? The problem is I cannot map a custom figure to a child reference, because it is not a feature that appears in the model. Could anyone give me some useful hints?

Thanks,
Chris

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Re: Place a custom figure into a compartment [message #924032 is a reply to message #922697] Wed, 26 September 2012 12:29 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris B. is currently offline Chris B.Friend
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I try to formulate my question different: Is there a possibility to insert the image in any editable GMF figure? I want this image to appear in the diagrams' notation tag without having a corresponding reference in the model?

Regards,
Chris

[Updated on: Wed, 26 September 2012 12:30]

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Re: Place a custom figure into a compartment [message #936828 is a reply to message #924032] Mon, 08 October 2012 11:28 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ralph Gerbig is currently offline Ralph GerbigFriend
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Hi Chris,

it is hard to understand what you want to achieve. Do you want to have a figure for a link?

Ralph

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Re: Place a custom figure into a compartment [message #938309 is a reply to message #936828] Tue, 09 October 2012 18:59 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris B. is currently offline Chris B.Friend
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Hi Ralph,

I admit, this needs more explanation. In my company we are using QFTest to verify the validity of the GMF diagrams. The catch is, the software only recognizes selectable objects on the diagram like nodes, labels and compartments, in other words components that can be edited. The information used for the object recognition is taken out of the XMI representation of the diagram (both, model and notation view element tags). Therefore images can not be detected, due to their absence. A very error-prone workaround is to locate these objects by position estimation. What i want to do is to put images into editable view elements, e.g.labels or compartments, without modifying the model, just to have a reference to the respective object. Maybe it became much clearer to you now.

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Chris

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Re: Place a custom figure into a compartment [message #939999 is a reply to message #938309] Thu, 11 October 2012 08:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ralph Gerbig is currently offline Ralph GerbigFriend
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Hi,

Quote:
What i want to do is to put images into editable view elements, e.g.labels or compartments, without modifying the model, just to have a reference to the respective object.


did you try out the SVGFigure in the graphical model? With this you can have nodes that are represented by a figure. This would meet the requirement to have an image in an editable element. Hope I got you right this time.

Ralph

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Re: Place a custom figure into a compartment [message #940559 is a reply to message #939999] Thu, 11 October 2012 19:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Chris B. is currently offline Chris B.Friend
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Thank you Ralph,

sounds exactely like what i'm looking for. I'll give it a try.

Best regards,
Chris

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Re: Place a custom figure into a compartment [message #945602 is a reply to message #940559] Mon, 15 October 2012 13:17 Go to previous message
Ralph Gerbig is currently offline Ralph GerbigFriend
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Hi,

then take a look at this link http://wiki.eclipse.org/Graphical_Modeling_Framework/Tutorial/Part_2#Use_SVGFigure

Ralph

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