| zest versus gef newbie question [message #244495] |
Tue, 22 July 2008 18:22  |
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Originally posted by: martin.attivio.com
I've search around quite a bit and cannot really puzzle this out. Caveat:
I'm new to GEF so I'm just learning the concepts.
I read the doc on GEF and have a basic understanding of EditParts,
Figures, etc. I've compiled and run the Zest samples. I'd like to use
Zest for rendering and interacting with graphs in my GEF plugin. I see
how I could get Zest stuff rendered via the createPartControl, but this
seems like the wrong approach. But there seems to be no connection
between them, that is, I don't see how to relate Figures and EditParts to
Zest.
I know I'm missing something fundamental. Can someone clue me in or point
me to some examples?
Thanks,
Martin
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| Re: zest versus gef newbie question [message #244505 is a reply to message #244495] |
Wed, 23 July 2008 05:02  |
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Hi,
In fact, GEF (Graphical Editing Framework) ,as its name shows,
should be used when you need Editing features.
Zest, as its name don't show, is a visualization Graph Toolkit. you
can use it when you need to display items as a graph. Zest is less
extensible, but the code you must write is shortest and more
simple.(It's the same logic as Jface)
The both works on draw2D, to draw the Figure.
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Martin Serrano a écrit :
> I've search around quite a bit and cannot really puzzle this out.
> Caveat: I'm new to GEF so I'm just learning the concepts.
>
> I read the doc on GEF and have a basic understanding of EditParts,
> Figures, etc. I've compiled and run the Zest samples. I'd like to use
> Zest for rendering and interacting with graphs in my GEF plugin. I see
> how I could get Zest stuff rendered via the createPartControl, but this
> seems like the wrong approach. But there seems to be no connection
> between them, that is, I don't see how to relate Figures and EditParts
> to Zest.
> I know I'm missing something fundamental. Can someone clue me in or
> point me to some examples?
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
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