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BasicNewFileResourceWizard [message #336178] Wed, 27 May 2009 22:43 Go to next message
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Originally posted by: riwright.adobe.com

I am building a custom perspective to support some scientific modeling. As
part of the workflow, I need to let the user create new datasets (which are
arrays in memory, zipfiles on disk). There are several aspects to datasets,
including class-type, dataset type, name, number of dimensions, elements per
dimensions, etc.

This sort of calls out for a wizard and it seems like a subclass of
BasicNewFileResourceWizard would be the way to go. But the documentation
says "This class can be instantiated, but is not intended to be
sub-classed". Why? How should this be done in a blessed way? I hate to
re-invent the wheel by building out a wizard that already exists.

TIA, Ric
Re: BasicNewFileResourceWizard [message #336184 is a reply to message #336178] Thu, 28 May 2009 10:45 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Ric,

It sounds like maybe you should be using EMF
<http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=emf>. :-P

If you did, EMF would generate exactly the kind of wizard you'd need to
do what you describe. You should be extending Wizard and reusing the
WizardNewFileCreationPage.

If you follow one of the tutorials, it will generate an example:

http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.emf.doc/tutorials/xlibmod/xlibmod.html


Ric Wright wrote:
> I am building a custom perspective to support some scientific modeling. As
> part of the workflow, I need to let the user create new datasets (which are
> arrays in memory, zipfiles on disk). There are several aspects to datasets,
> including class-type, dataset type, name, number of dimensions, elements per
> dimensions, etc.
>
> This sort of calls out for a wizard and it seems like a subclass of
> BasicNewFileResourceWizard would be the way to go. But the documentation
> says "This class can be instantiated, but is not intended to be
> sub-classed". Why? How should this be done in a blessed way? I hate to
> re-invent the wheel by building out a wizard that already exists.
>
> TIA, Ric
>
>

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Ric,<br>
<br>
It sounds like maybe you should be using <a
href="http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=emf">EMF</a>. :-P<br>
<br>
If you did, EMF would generate exactly the kind of wizard you'd need to
do what you describe.&nbsp; You should be extending Wizard and reusing the
WizardNewFileCreationPage.<br>
<br>
If you follow one of the tutorials, it will generate an example: <br>
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href=" http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.emf.doc/tutorials/xlibmod/xlibmod.html"> http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.emf.doc/tutorials/xlibmod/xlibmod.html</a><br>
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Ric Wright wrote:
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<pre wrap="">I am building a custom perspective to support some scientific modeling. As
part of the workflow, I need to let the user create new datasets (which are
arrays in memory, zipfiles on disk). There are several aspects to datasets,
including class-type, dataset type, name, number of dimensions, elements per
dimensions, etc.

This sort of calls out for a wizard and it seems like a subclass of
BasicNewFileResourceWizard would be the way to go. But the documentation
says "This class can be instantiated, but is not intended to be
sub-classed". Why? How should this be done in a blessed way? I hate to
re-invent the wheel by building out a wizard that already exists.

TIA, Ric

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Ed Merks
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Re: BasicNewFileResourceWizard [message #336195 is a reply to message #336184] Thu, 28 May 2009 15:55 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: riwright.adobe.com

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Ed,

Thanks for the pointer to the tutorial. Very detailed. I
Re: BasicNewFileResourceWizard [message #336215 is a reply to message #336195] Fri, 29 May 2009 19:15 Go to previous message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

Ric Wright wrote:
> Ed,
>
> Thanks for the pointer to the tutorial. Very detailed. I’ll walk
> through it, but it seems like overkill for what I need. But I will walk
> through it and see how it goes. I think pieces of it are appropriate
> and maybe I can apply parts of it.

The parts that are key, as Ed mentioned, are to extend
org.eclipse.jface.wizard.Wizard and in the addPages() method call
addPage(IWizardPage) for each page you want to create.

This package has a couple of useful base class that you can look at as
examples for your Wizard and WizardPage implementations (note, these are
GPL licensed code):
https://www.skywayperspectives.org/fisheye/browse/CVS_OpenSo urce/skyway/common/plugins/org.skyway.ui/src/org/skyway/ui/w izard

Hope this helps,
Eric


> On 5/28/09 3:45 AM, in article gvlq09$l49$1@build.eclipse.org, "Ed
> Merks" <Ed.Merks@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Ric,
>
> It sounds like maybe you should be using EMF
> <http://www.eclipse.org/modeling/emf/?project=emf> . :-P
>
> If you did, EMF would generate exactly the kind of wizard you'd need
> to do what you describe. You should be extending Wizard and reusing
> the WizardNewFileCreationPage.
>
> If you follow one of the tutorials, it will generate an example:
>
> http://help.eclipse.org/ganymede/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclips e.emf.doc/tutorials/xlibmod/xlibmod.html
>
>
> Ric Wright wrote:
>
>
> I am building a custom perspective to support some scientific
> modeling. As
> part of the workflow, I need to let the user create new datasets
> (which are
> arrays in memory, zipfiles on disk). There are several aspects
> to datasets,
> including class-type, dataset type, name, number of dimensions,
> elements per
> dimensions, etc.
>
> This sort of calls out for a wizard and it seems like a subclass of
> BasicNewFileResourceWizard would be the way to go. But the
> documentation
> says "This class can be instantiated, but is not intended to be
> sub-classed". Why? How should this be done in a blessed way?
> I hate to
> re-invent the wheel by building out a wizard that already exists.
>
> TIA, Ric
>
>
>
>
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