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Placing a container in a composite figure [message #215148]

Tue, 13 January 2009 18:29

Marc Ollier

Messages: 8
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello

I have a rectangle A that contains two rectangles B and C. How can I place a
container into B? The property Compartment.Figure does only accept Figure
Descriptors, but A B and C are all under the same Figure Descriptor.

Declaring a Child Access for B and referencing this child access in the
compartment instead of referencing the figure descriptor does not work
neither.

Has someone an idea?

Thanks
Marc

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Re: Placing a container in a composite figure [message #215179 is a reply to message #215148]

Wed, 14 January 2009 13:06

Marc Ollier

Messages: 8
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello again

I have found this thread in the archive:
http://dev.eclipse.org/newslists/news.eclipse.technology.gmf /msg03541.html

This post (from 2006) suggests using following gmfgraph xml:

<children
xsi:type="gmfgraph:Rectangle"
referencingElements="ThreadCompartment"
name="FolderCompartment">
<layoutData
xsi:type="gmfgraph:BorderLayoutData"
alignment="FILL"/>
</children>

<compartments
name="ThreadCompartment"
figure="FolderCompartment"
collapsible="true"
needsTitle="true"/>

Is this from an older version of GMF? The attribute referencingElements
semms not to exist, and I am not able to select a rectangle as figure
compartment.
How can the same result be reached with the current GMF?

Thanks
Marc

"Marc Ollier" <in1@marc-ollier.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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> Hello
>
> I have a rectangle A that contains two rectangles B and C. How can I place
> a container into B? The property Compartment.Figure does only accept
> Figure Descriptors, but A B and C are all under the same Figure
> Descriptor.
>
> Declaring a Child Access for B and referencing this child access in the
> compartment instead of referencing the figure descriptor does not work
> neither.
>
> Has someone an idea?
>
> Thanks
> Marc

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Re: Placing a container in a composite figure [message #215522 is a reply to message #215148]

Fri, 16 January 2009 15:31

Alexander Shatalin

Messages: 2928
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hello Marc,

The trick is: you have to define node figure and compartment figure separately
- GMF will include second one into the first one automatically. If you have
a complex structure of Node figure (having dedicated child figure where compartment
figure should be placed) then you have to point to this figure (child container)
by contentPane property of Node referencing main node FigureDescriptor (contentPane
property should point to the appropriate childAccess created below main FigureDescriptor
and pointing to the childFigure).

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

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