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configure compatibility layer's appModel [message #1603520]

Fri, 06 February 2015 07:58

quest ionnere

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Registered: January 2015

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Hi all,

as far as I have seen so far the e4 compatibility layer always creates an application model in Workbench.class. This application model always contains certain descriptors.

Is there any way to edit that application model - e.g. add or remove descriptors, set Parts visible or invisible?
As soon as I start the application as an E4Application I won't use the compat layer anymore or am I?
Is there any reading material on how the compat layer actually works and what it does?

thanks in advance

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Re: configure compatibility layer's appModel [message #1611859 is a reply to message #1603520]

Wed, 11 February 2015 17:02

Eclipse User

The E3.x compat layer is itself an E4 application. It records additional information into the model, just as a pure E4 app would do too. Since it's just an E4 app, you can also change the E4 model and the E3.x CL should respond to those changes. So twiddling part visible flags should work.

None of this additional information recorded in the the model is considered API, however, and it may change between releases with no notification. The only reliable doc is the code itself.

Brian.

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