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Mon, 19 July 2004 01:22

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: g.wagenknecht.planet-wagenknecht.de

Hi Community!

I just found out that Holongate has added new features for using Java2D from
within GEF/Draw2D. I just needed to change 3 lines in my code to got it
working for our editor.

Screen shots:
http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/gallery.html

More info:
http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/index.html

Cu, Gunnar

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143174 is a reply to message #143165]

Mon, 19 July 2004 02:13

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: brian.fernandes.codito.com

W000t ! Finally....

It all looks extremely promising. Can't wait to try it out.

I went through most of the documentation - finding out how to download the
plugin was a bit of an exercise :)

Here's the link.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71622

Keeping my fingers crossed,
Brian.

"Gunnar Wagenknecht" <g.wagenknecht@planet-wagenknecht.de> wrote in message
news:cdfljv$45v$1@eclipse.org...
> Hi Community!
>
> I just found out that Holongate has added new features for using Java2D
from
> within GEF/Draw2D. I just needed to change 3 lines in my code to got it
> working for our editor.
>
> Screen shots:
> http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/gallery.html
>
> More info:
> http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/index.html
>
> Cu, Gunnar
>
>

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143206 is a reply to message #143165]

Mon, 19 July 2004 04:42

Eclipse User

Gunnar,

Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I can't make this work with Eclipse +
GEF 3.0. The screenshots also suggest that the authors have developed it
on 2.x.

James

Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:

> Hi Community!

> I just found out that Holongate has added new features for using Java2D from
> within GEF/Draw2D. I just needed to change 3 lines in my code to got it
> working for our editor.

> Screen shots:
> http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/gallery.html

> More info:
> http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/index.html

> Cu, Gunnar

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143226 is a reply to message #143165]

Mon, 19 July 2004 07:42

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: brian.fernandes.codito.com

Hi Gunnar,

I was field testing the Holongate plugins with Eclipse 2.1.2 and GEF 2.1.2.
I managed to get the the plugins installed without any problems - I see the
Java2D support page in the Preference dialog and the demos on the "Rendering
Hints" page seem to work fast and fine.

I added the j2d4swt.jar to my plugins classpath and changed all references
to the following classes to their J2D counterparts
GraphicalEditorWithPalette, ScrollingGraphicalViewer,
ScalableFreeFormRootEditPart.

Somewhere in the overridden createGraphicalViewer(), I hit this exception..

java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class
org.eclipse.draw2d.BufferedGraphicsSource from class
org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DGraphicsSource
at org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DGraphicsSource.<init>(J2DGraphicsSource.java:61)
at
org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DLightweightSystem.setControl(J2DLightw eightSystem.java
:49)
at org.eclipse.draw2d.FigureCanvas.<init>(FigureCanvas.java:83)
at
org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.ScrollingGraphicalViewer.createCont rol(ScrollingGra
phicalViewer.java:29)
at
org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette.creat eGraphicalViewer
(J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette.java:42)
.....

the code that leads up to this is ..
if (J2DRegistry.getHints().get(J2DGraphics.KEY_USE_JAVA2D) == Boolean.TRUE)

I don't really know what this key maps to in the preference page - but I
believe I have the necessary options turned on. Inspite of this, this value
is false and the BufferedGraphicsSource class is being loaded.

I don't really know if the problem is here, or elsewhere. The above happened
in GEF + Eclipse 2.1.0 as well.

Any ideas ?

Could you tell me what you changed to get your editor working ?

Thanks a bunch,
Brian.

genknecht" <g.wagenknecht@planet-wagenknecht.de> wrote in message
news:cdfljv$45v$1@eclipse.org...
> Hi Community!
>
> I just found out that Holongate has added new features for using Java2D
from
> within GEF/Draw2D. I just needed to change 3 lines in my code to got it
> working for our editor.
>
> Screen shots:
> http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/gallery.html
>
> More info:
> http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/index.html
>
> Cu, Gunnar
>
>

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143234 is a reply to message #143165]

Mon, 19 July 2004 07:42

Eclipse User

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143243 is a reply to message #143226]

Mon, 19 July 2004 07:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: g.wagenknecht.planet-wagenknecht.de

Brian,

Brian Fernandes wrote:
> I added the j2d4swt.jar to my plugins classpath and changed all
> references to the following classes to their J2D counterparts
> GraphicalEditorWithPalette, ScrollingGraphicalViewer,
> ScalableFreeFormRootEditPart.

There seems to be some classpath issues but got it working. Note that there
are still some painting issues when scrolling.

I checked out the two fragmens from SF CVS (org.holengate.draw2d/gef) and
placed them next two the GEF plugins (I use to have GEF plugins in my
workspace). Then I checkout the other holongate plug-ins. I had to modify
the classpath of my plug-ins to use the GEF fragements to resolve compile
issues but I didn't need to add something to my plugin.xml.

Note that the preferences are mixed up on every start. I have to open the
preference page once and toggle every preference off and on. The problem is
related to plugin startup/activation behavior. I fixed it locally in my
code. You can solve this by calling "Draw2dPlugin.getDefault" befor you
create any J2D stuff. This ensures that preferences are initialized
properties.

Cu, Gunnar

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143251 is a reply to message #143206]

Mon, 19 July 2004 07:51

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: g.wagenknecht.planet-wagenknecht.de

James Willans wrote:
> Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I can't make this work with
> Eclipse + GEF 3.0. The screenshots also suggest that the authors
> have developed it on 2.x.

Doesn't seem to work with 3.0 yet.

Cu, Gunnar

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143334 is a reply to message #143234]

Mon, 19 July 2004 13:04

Eclipse User

Brian Fernandes wrote:

Brian,

I don't understand what kind of install you are using:
- either you use the plugins / fragments inside the workench
- either you use the standalone jars

If you are seeing the preference pages, i guess you are working inside the
workbench.
In that case, you don't have to add j2d4swt.jar in your plugin classpath but to
add a dependency on the relevant plugins through the PDE plugin.xml editor.

Mixing the two class loading mechanisms may lead to the kind of error you have.
--
Christophe
> Hi Gunnar,
>
> I was field testing the Holongate plugins with Eclipse 2.1.2 and GEF 2.1.2.
> I managed to get the the plugins installed without any problems - I see the
> Java2D support page in the Preference dialog and the demos on the "Rendering
> Hints" page seem to work fast and fine.
>
> I added the j2d4swt.jar to my plugins classpath and changed all references
> to the following classes to their J2D counterparts
> GraphicalEditorWithPalette, ScrollingGraphicalViewer,
> ScalableFreeFormRootEditPart.
>
> Somewhere in the overridden createGraphicalViewer(), I hit this exception..
>
> java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class
> org.eclipse.draw2d.BufferedGraphicsSource from class
> org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DGraphicsSource
> at org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DGraphicsSource.<init>(J2DGraphicsSource.java:61)
> at
> org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DLightweightSystem.setControl(J2DLightw eightSystem.java
> :49)
> at org.eclipse.draw2d.FigureCanvas.<init>(FigureCanvas.java:83)
> at
> org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.ScrollingGraphicalViewer.createCont rol(ScrollingGra
> phicalViewer.java:29)
> at
> org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette.creat eGraphicalViewer
> (J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette.java:42)
> ....
>
> the code that leads up to this is ..
> if (J2DRegistry.getHints().get(J2DGraphics.KEY_USE_JAVA2D) == Boolean.TRUE)
>
> I don't really know what this key maps to in the preference page - but I
> believe I have the necessary options turned on. Inspite of this, this value
> is false and the BufferedGraphicsSource class is being loaded.
>
> I don't really know if the problem is here, or elsewhere. The above happened
> in GEF + Eclipse 2.1.0 as well.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Could you tell me what you changed to get your editor working ?
>
> Thanks a bunch,
> Brian.

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143344 is a reply to message #143243]

Mon, 19 July 2004 13:07

Eclipse User

Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:

>
> Note that the preferences are mixed up on every start. I have to open the
> preference page once and toggle every preference off and on. The problem is
> related to plugin startup/activation behavior. I fixed it locally in my
> code. You can solve this by calling "Draw2dPlugin.getDefault" befor you
> create any J2D stuff. This ensures that preferences are initialized
> properties.
>
> Cu, Gunnar
>
>

Can you open a bug report on the SF Gunnar, i cannot reproduce your problem
(maybe a fresh install will reveal it).
--
Christophe

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143354 is a reply to message #143174]

Mon, 19 July 2004 13:10

Eclipse User

Brian Fernandes wrote:

> W000t ! Finally....
>
> It all looks extremely promising. Can't wait to try it out.
>
> I went through most of the documentation - finding out how to download the
> plugin was a bit of an exercise :)
>
> Here's the link.
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=71622
>
> Keeping my fingers crossed,
> Brian.
>
>
>
>
> "Gunnar Wagenknecht" <g.wagenknecht@planet-wagenknecht.de> wrote in message
> news:cdfljv$45v$1@eclipse.org...
>
>>Hi Community!
>>
>>I just found out that Holongate has added new features for using Java2D
>
> from
>
>>within GEF/Draw2D. I just needed to change 3 lines in my code to got it
>>working for our editor.
>>
>>Screen shots:
>>http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/gallery.html
>>
>>More info:
>>http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/index.html
>>
>>Cu, Gunnar

It's on the homepage under "all downloads": as the website have been refreshed
with some delay, your navigator and its caching algorithm may have not seen the
change yet: can you try it now?

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143383 is a reply to message #143206]

Mon, 19 July 2004 13:42

Eclipse User

James Willans wrote:

> Gunnar,
>
> Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I can't make this work with Eclipse +
> GEF 3.0. The screenshots also suggest that the authors have developed it
> on 2.x.
>
> James
>
> Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:
>
>
>>Hi Community!
>
>
>>I just found out that Holongate has added new features for using Java2D from
>>within GEF/Draw2D. I just needed to change 3 lines in my code to got it
>>working for our editor.
>
>
>>Screen shots:
>>http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/gallery.html
>
>
>>More info:
>>http://www.holongate.org/holongate-2.0/gef/index.html
>
>
>>Cu, Gunnar
>
>
>
That's more than a suggestion: the plugins version number matches those of
Draw2d and GEF for that reason.
Unfortunalety, the matching rule is set to "Compatible" which means that a 3.0
GEF will satisfy the rule: this will be corrected in the next drop.
--
Christophe

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143392 is a reply to message #143383]

Mon, 19 July 2004 14:15

Eclipse User

Christophe wrote:
> That's more than a suggestion: the plugins version number matches those of
> Draw2d and GEF for that reason.
> Unfortunalety, the matching rule is set to "Compatible" which means that a
3.0
> GEF will satisfy the rule: this will be corrected in the next drop.

Christophe,

It sounds like you're a (the) man in the know. Is there plans to upgrade
the plugins to work with Eclipse 3.0?

Thanks.

James

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143411 is a reply to message #143392]

Mon, 19 July 2004 16:11

Eclipse User

James Willans wrote:
> Christophe wrote:
>
>>That's more than a suggestion: the plugins version number matches those of
>>Draw2d and GEF for that reason.
>>Unfortunalety, the matching rule is set to "Compatible" which means that a
>
> 3.0
>
>>GEF will satisfy the rule: this will be corrected in the next drop.
>
>
> Christophe,
>
> It sounds like you're a (the) man in the know. Is there plans to upgrade
> the plugins to work with Eclipse 3.0?
>
> Thanks.
>
> James
>
>
As you may have noticed on the web site, there is effectively a 3.0 series underway.
But the goals (and the underlying technology) of the 3.0 plugins are not the
same due to the availability of the AWT_SWT bridge which allows you to embed AWT
widgets and all the Java2D stuff inside an SWT container.
A first release of the "Java2D support" for SWT 3.0 based on this new approach
is due by the end of this month: this is a preliminary release to check the
actual insterest of such a support.
I have no precise plan for a GEF/Draw2d support and even don't know if the
result will be satisfying or technically possible.
Anyway, if the community feedback is strong, it should be possible (and fast) to
upgrade the actual work to support SWT/GEF/Draw2d 3.0.

Please use the SourceForge services to post a feature enhancement so that i can
keep track of that topic.
--
Christophe

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143421 is a reply to message #143411]

Mon, 19 July 2004 16:29

Eclipse User

There will be some interest here:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7075

"Christophe" <christophe.avare@free.fr> wrote in message
news:cdh9pu$eor$5@eclipse.org...
> James Willans wrote:
> > Christophe wrote:
> >
> >>That's more than a suggestion: the plugins version number matches those
of
> >>Draw2d and GEF for that reason.
> >>Unfortunalety, the matching rule is set to "Compatible" which means that
a
> >
> > 3.0
> >
> >>GEF will satisfy the rule: this will be corrected in the next drop.
> >
> >
> > Christophe,
> >
> > It sounds like you're a (the) man in the know. Is there plans to
upgrade
> > the plugins to work with Eclipse 3.0?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > James
> >
> >
> As you may have noticed on the web site, there is effectively a 3.0 series
underway.
> But the goals (and the underlying technology) of the 3.0 plugins are not
the
> same due to the availability of the AWT_SWT bridge which allows you to
embed AWT
> widgets and all the Java2D stuff inside an SWT container.
> A first release of the "Java2D support" for SWT 3.0 based on this new
approach
> is due by the end of this month: this is a preliminary release to check
the
> actual insterest of such a support.
> I have no precise plan for a GEF/Draw2d support and even don't know if the
> result will be satisfying or technically possible.
> Anyway, if the community feedback is strong, it should be possible (and
fast) to
> upgrade the actual work to support SWT/GEF/Draw2d 3.0.
>
> Please use the SourceForge services to post a feature enhancement so that
i can
> keep track of that topic.
> --
> Christophe

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143430 is a reply to message #143421]

Mon, 19 July 2004 16:59

Eclipse User

For the little story:

Everything started with the SWT bug on win32: dashed lines of width > 1 are
displayed solid!

In fact, the SWT team have a high sensitivity to anything inside java.awt.*,
maybe with reason for some topics, maybe not.

All that stuff would be unecessary if the GC had a drawImage(BufferedImage
img,...) method, or if the GC was not a final class.

It is really a pity to see the work that have been done inside the ImageData
class to avoid having to write 'import java.awt.BufferedImage' inside an SWT class!

Having a fast, possibly native, method to convert a BufferedImage (or one of the
new Volatile, Offsreen variants) into an SWT Image would have preserved the time
of the SWT team, and the assets of the users.
--
Christophe

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143440 is a reply to message #143243]

Mon, 19 July 2004 17:16

Eclipse User

Gunnar Wagenknecht wrote:

> Note that the preferences are mixed up on every start. I have to open the
> preference page once and toggle every preference off and on. The problem is
> related to plugin startup/activation behavior. I fixed it locally in my
> code. You can solve this by calling "Draw2dPlugin.getDefault" befor you
> create any J2D stuff. This ensures that preferences are initialized
> properties.
>
> Cu, Gunnar
>
>
Ok, the wrong drop has been delivered, it was only working for me!
The Draw2d actually implements the IStartup interface because, as you have
noticed, no method of the plugin triggers its loading before any preference is
loaded.

This is corrected for RC2, but i wait some more feedback before delivering it.
(but you can check out the CVS right now)
--
Christophe

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #143487 is a reply to message #143334]

Tue, 20 July 2004 01:02

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: brian.fernandes.codito.com

Hi Christophe,

First - thanks for the plugin & thanks for the prompt support.

I was using the binary distribution, I think the org.holongate.gef fragment
was /is missing from the distribution (org.holongate.j2d.gef is there
though). So I grabbed J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette from the standalone jars
:) Bad move.

As Gunnar and you suggested, I'm now using the fresh and updated CVS
checkouts.

I've got compile issues now though - classes like
J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette are defined in a fragment org.holongate.gef
and I can't add a fragment as a dependancy to my plugin. If I add the
fragment to the build path - compile issues are resolved, but I get a
NoClassDefFound exception on J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette in the runtime
workspace - I guess this can be somehow fixed, but I had no success so far.

As a temporary hack, I ultimately got things working by copying the
org.holongate.gef packages into my plugin. I also created a
J2DScalableRootEditPart and J2DScalableLayeredPane (I don't want the
freeforms)

I've managed to see some darned good antialiasing :)

Great work - I (and I'm sure many others) be very happy to see the GEF
support for Eclipse / GEF 3. You have my vote !

Thanks again,
Brian.

"Christophe" <christophe.avare@free.fr> wrote in message
news:cdgurm$eor$1@eclipse.org...
> Brian Fernandes wrote:
>
> Brian,
>
> I don't understand what kind of install you are using:
> - either you use the plugins / fragments inside the workench
> - either you use the standalone jars
>
> If you are seeing the preference pages, i guess you are working inside the
> workbench.
> In that case, you don't have to add j2d4swt.jar in your plugin classpath
but to
> add a dependency on the relevant plugins through the PDE plugin.xml
editor.
>
> Mixing the two class loading mechanisms may lead to the kind of error you
have.
> --
> Christophe
> > Hi Gunnar,
> >
> > I was field testing the Holongate plugins with Eclipse 2.1.2 and GEF
2.1.2.
> > I managed to get the the plugins installed without any problems - I see
the
> > Java2D support page in the Preference dialog and the demos on the
"Rendering
> > Hints" page seem to work fast and fine.
> >
> > I added the j2d4swt.jar to my plugins classpath and changed all
references
> > to the following classes to their J2D counterparts
> > GraphicalEditorWithPalette, ScrollingGraphicalViewer,
> > ScalableFreeFormRootEditPart.
> >
> > Somewhere in the overridden createGraphicalViewer(), I hit this
exception..
> >
> > java.lang.IllegalAccessError: tried to access class
> > org.eclipse.draw2d.BufferedGraphicsSource from class
> > org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DGraphicsSource
> > at
org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DGraphicsSource.<init>(J2DGraphicsSource.java:61)
> > at
> >
org.eclipse.draw2d.J2DLightweightSystem.setControl(J2DLightw eightSystem.java
> > :49)
> > at org.eclipse.draw2d.FigureCanvas.<init>(FigureCanvas.java:83)
> > at
> >
org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.ScrollingGraphicalViewer.createCont rol(ScrollingGra
> > phicalViewer.java:29)
> > at
> >
org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette.creat eGraphicalViewer
> > (J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette.java:42)
> > ....
> >
> > the code that leads up to this is ..
> > if (J2DRegistry.getHints().get(J2DGraphics.KEY_USE_JAVA2D) ==
Boolean.TRUE)
> >
> > I don't really know what this key maps to in the preference page - but I
> > believe I have the necessary options turned on. Inspite of this, this
value
> > is false and the BufferedGraphicsSource class is being loaded.
> >
> > I don't really know if the problem is here, or elsewhere. The above
happened
> > in GEF + Eclipse 2.1.0 as well.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> > Could you tell me what you changed to get your editor working ?
> >
> > Thanks a bunch,
> > Brian.

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #146283 is a reply to message #143334]

Tue, 03 August 2004 11:52

Eclipse User

Hi Christophe!

I downloaded the following archives:

org.holongate.draw2D_2.1.2RC1.zip
org.holongate.j2d.get_2.1.0RC1.zip
org.holongate.j2d_2.0.0RC2.zip

But I can't find any GEF class inside these archives (e.g.
j2DScalableFreeformRootEditPart, J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette, .. and
so on).

May you help me?

Regards,

Holger

Re: Want AntiAliased GEF? [message #146301 is a reply to message #146283]

Tue, 03 August 2004 12:09

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: brian.fernandes.codito.com

I had the same problem - when I downloaded the binaries - the GEF classes
were not included; an oversight, I'm sure.

Use CVS to get the sources,

Brian.

"Holger Herzog" <holger.herzog@arcway.com> wrote in message
news:ceoc7d$2qh$1@eclipse.org...
> Hi Christophe!
>
> I downloaded the following archives:
>
> org.holongate.draw2D_2.1.2RC1.zip
> org.holongate.j2d.get_2.1.0RC1.zip
> org.holongate.j2d_2.0.0RC2.zip
>
> But I can't find any GEF class inside these archives (e.g.
> j2DScalableFreeformRootEditPart, J2DGraphicalEditorWithPalette, .. and
> so on).
>
> May you help me?
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Holger

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