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Tue, 09 August 2005 16:16

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: renjitheclipse.yahoo.com

Hi,

Iam trying to understand how VE does the screen scraping from a SWT widget
to present as an ImageFigure in GEF. Can anyone please help?

My objective is to build a lightweight form designer using GEF that would
store the form information in an xml file. I think VE/EMF is too
heavyweight for this. Any Thoughts?

Thanks for the help!

Re: VE Screen scraping [message #101950 is a reply to message #101708]

Wed, 10 August 2005 21:12

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: myersj.nospam.gmail.com

Renjith,

The code that performs the SWT screen scraping (on Windows) is here:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.swt/ vm_swt/org/eclipse/ve/internal/swt/targetvm/win32/ImageCaptu re.java?rev=1.11&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type= text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

This is done on a separate Java VM that is used to model the UI design.
The image is transferred through the Java proxies to the editor, then
displayed in GEF figures - see ControlGraphicalEditPart:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.swt/ ve_swt/org/eclipse/ve/internal/swt/ControlGraphicalEditPart. java?rev=1.26&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type=tex t/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

Renjith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Iam trying to understand how VE does the screen scraping from a SWT
> widget to present as an ImageFigure in GEF. Can anyone please help?
> My objective is to build a lightweight form designer using GEF that
> would store the form information in an xml file. I think VE/EMF is too
> heavyweight for this. Any Thoughts?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>

Re: VE Screen scraping [message #610239 is a reply to message #101708]

Wed, 10 August 2005 21:12

Eclipse User

Renjith,

The code that performs the SWT screen scraping (on Windows) is here:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.swt/ vm_swt/org/eclipse/ve/internal/swt/targetvm/win32/ImageCaptu re.java?rev=1.11&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type= text/vnd.viewcvs-markup

This is done on a separate Java VM that is used to model the UI design.
The image is transferred through the Java proxies to the editor, then
displayed in GEF figures - see ControlGraphicalEditPart:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/org.eclipse.ve.swt/ ve_swt/org/eclipse/ve/internal/swt/ControlGraphicalEditPart. java?rev=1.26&cvsroot=Tools_Project&content-type=tex t/vnd.viewcvs-markup

Hope this helps,
- Jeff

Renjith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Iam trying to understand how VE does the screen scraping from a SWT
> widget to present as an ImageFigure in GEF. Can anyone please help?
> My objective is to build a lightweight form designer using GEF that
> would store the form information in an xml file. I think VE/EMF is too
> heavyweight for this. Any Thoughts?
>
> Thanks for the help!
>
>

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