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EditPart figures in feedback layer [message #229196]

Tue, 16 January 2007 17:55

Eclipse User

I am wondering about having editparts whose figures sometimes live in a
different layer. Imagine for example a visual editpart that has several
children that only want to be visible when the parent receives hover or
selection.

In the case of hover, I'd like the child figure to live in the feedback
layer so it can be managed through the standard showTargetFeedback
mechanism. In the case of selection, I'd the child could live in either
the primary layer or the handle layer.

Is that possible/advisable? Also, what is the better of making this sort
of child appear/disapper? Is it better to set the figure.isVisible flag
or have the parent edit part change what children it returns and do a
refresh?

--Cam

Re: EditPart figures in feedback layer [message #229573 is a reply to message #229196]

Mon, 22 January 2007 05:42

Eclipse User

In case anyone is interested, I figured out how do this by overriding
addChildVisual in the parent edit part of those editparts for which I
wanted the figure to be a child of a graphical layer instead of a child of
the parent editpart's figure. So far it seems to be working fine.

--Cam

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