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Change help text in properties view [message #662198]

Tue, 29 March 2011 17:01

Ralph Gerbig

Messages: 702
Registered: November 2009

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Hi all,

when selecting a attribute in the properties view a short help text is displayed in eclipse's status bar. This text always shows The [attribute name] of the [meta-class name]. How can this text be customized like it is done in the ecore model tree editor.

Ralph

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Re: Change help text in properties view [message #662239 is a reply to message #662198]

Tue, 29 March 2011 18:49

Ed Merks

Messages: 33133
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Ralph,

All such strings are in the plugin.properties of the generated *.edit
project.

ralph. wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> when selecting a attribute in the properties view a short help text is
> displayed in eclipse's status bar. This text always shows The
> [attribute name] of the [meta-class name]. How can this text be
> customized like it is done in the ecore model tree editor.
>
> Ralph

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

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Re: Change help text in properties view [message #662351 is a reply to message #662239]

Wed, 30 March 2011 10:45

Ralph Gerbig

Messages: 702
Registered: November 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

I thought of doing this without touching a generated plug-in. Is there no way to do this via Annotations etc. and to get this generated afterwards?

Ralph

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Re: Change help text in properties view [message #662446 is a reply to message #662351]

Wed, 30 March 2011 16:48

Ed Merks

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Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Ralph,

There's the Property Description property in the GenFeature you could
set instead.

ralph. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I thought of doing this without touching a generated plug-in. Is there
> no way to do this via Annotations etc. and to get this generated
> afterwards?
>
> Ralph

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

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Re: Change help text in properties view [message #663184 is a reply to message #662446]

Mon, 04 April 2011 09:20

Ralph Gerbig

Messages: 702
Registered: November 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

is there a way to set this text automated when generating the genmodel. I thought about something like a transformation that gets automatically executed. Is there a way to hook into the transformation process? In the same way one can do it in GMF. This would allow me to annotate descriptions in the ecore meta model.

Ralph

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Re: Change help text in properties view [message #663305 is a reply to message #663184]

Mon, 04 April 2011 14:54

Ed Merks

Messages: 33133
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Ralph,

No, there's no mechanism for that.

ralph. wrote:
> Hi,
>
> is there a way to set this text automated when generating the
> genmodel. I thought about something like a transformation that gets
> automatically executed. Is there a way to hook into the transformation
> process? In the same way one can do it in GMF. This would allow me to
> annotate descriptions in the ecore meta model.
>
> Ralph

Ed Merks
Professional Support: https://www.macromodeling.com/

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