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Change "Arrange All" Orientation [message #811483]

Fri, 02 March 2012 06:58

Eclipse User

Hello i have a question on customizing behaviour of the "Arrange All" function.
Normally all the nodes in are arranged "Bottom-up" as shown in the picture i appended.

Can i change this to a "Top-Down" Orientation quickly , without writing new layouts etc. ?

I think this is a typical use-case so it would be great if it can be fixed quickly.

Greetings

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Re: Change "Arrange All" Orientation [message #813447 is a reply to message #811483]

Mon, 05 March 2012 04:17

Eclipse User

Hello,

I don't know exactly how to do this, but you can have a look to method
org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.providers.internal.DefaultProvider.layoutTopDown(ConnectionEditPart)
that handles this functionality.

Regards,

Laurent

On 02/03/2012 12:58, Snakebyte Mising name wrote:
> Hello i have a question on customizing behaviour of the "Arrange All" function.
> Normally all the nodes in are arranged "Bottom-up" as shown in the picture i appended.
>
> Can i change this to a "Top-Down" Orientation quickly , without writing new layouts etc. ?
>
> I think this is a typical use-case so it would be great if it can be fixed quickly.
>
> Greetings

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Re: Change "Arrange All" Orientation [message #829916 is a reply to message #813447]

Mon, 26 March 2012 20:36

Eclipse User

This is what this function did :

protected boolean layoutTopDown(ConnectionEditPart poly) {
return false;
}

So i think you are wrong.

Re: Change "Arrange All" Orientation [message #829945 is a reply to message #829916]

Mon, 26 March 2012 21:42

Eclipse User

solved

Re: Change &quot;Arrange All&quot; Orientation [message #831182 is a reply to message #829945]

Wed, 28 March 2012 11:16

Eclipse User

On 27/03/2012 03:42, Snakebyte Mising name wrote:
> solved

Hello,

Could you say how for other persons that would have the same question?

Regards,

Laurent

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Re: Change &quot;Arrange All&quot; Orientation [message #837799 is a reply to message #831182]

Fri, 06 April 2012 01:25

Eclipse User

Currently trying to achieve the same. It would really help if you could let us know how you did it. Smile

Re: Change &quot;Arrange All&quot; Orientation [message #837804 is a reply to message #837799]

Fri, 06 April 2012 01:37

Eclipse User

Found it!

Add the following extension to plugin.xml (of the generated GMF diagram project).

<extension point="org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.layoutProviders">
<?gmfgen generated="false"?>
 <layoutProvider class="org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.providers.TopDownProvider">
  <Priority name="High"></Priority>
 </layoutProvider>
</extension>

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