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specifying icons in exeed [message #1037368]

Tue, 09 April 2013 13:19

oskar saiz

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Registered: February 2013

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Hi.

A very simple question:

I'm starting to use exeed.
I want to make an annotation to specify the icon: @exeed(icon...
How should I do this? Full path, path relative to what...
A simple example of this would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Oskar

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1037750 is a reply to message #1037368]

Wed, 10 April 2013 01:00

Dimitris Kolovos

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Location: York, UK

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Hi Oskar,

Currently, the selection of icons is limited to the built-in icons provided by Exeed [1]. Could you please file an enhancement request so that we can also provide support for custom plugin-based icon locations?

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/enter_bug.cgi?product=EMFT.Epsilon

Cheers,
Dimitris

[1] https://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.epsilon/trunk/plugins/org.eclipse.epsilon.dt.exeed/icons

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1042265 is a reply to message #1037750]

Tue, 16 April 2013 07:40

oskar saiz

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Hi Dimitris.

I've just filed the enhancement request as you suggested.

Anyway I'm not able to change icons even using the ones provided by Exeed.

I've tried with Icon and classIcon; with the name of the icon and with the name and path of the icon, but no success.

Some samples:

@exeed(classIcon="return 'compare.gif';")
@exeed(Icon="return 'icons/compare.gif';")

How should this be done?

Thanks a lot
Oskar

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1042534 is a reply to message #1042265]

Tue, 16 April 2013 14:44

Dimitris Kolovos

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Location: York, UK

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Hi Oskar,

Off the top of my head it should be

@exeed(classIcon="compare")
@exeed(icon="return 'compare';");

Below is an example of an annotated metamodel and I've also attached a deck of slides I've used in the past to present Exeed. I hope to find some time to transcode this to a HTML page with new screenshots etc. soon but any help with this would be more than welcome Smile

http://dev.eclipse.org/svnroot/modeling/org.eclipse.epsilon/trunk/examples/org.eclipse.epsilon.examples.exeedoo/

Cheers,
Dimitris

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1043224 is a reply to message #1042534]

Wed, 17 April 2013 12:46

oskar saiz

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Hi Dimitris.
Thank you for the reply.
I tested it. Here the result:

1.- This works:
a) @exeed(ClassIcon="compare")

2.- These do not work;
b) @exeed(icon="compare")
c) @exeed(icon="return 'compare';")
d) @exeed(classIcon="return 'compare';")

c) and d) do worry me: Does this mean that I cannot use a EOL expression for specifying the icon?
Must I use just an icon name (as in (a))?

Thanks again

Oskar

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1043267 is a reply to message #1043224]

Wed, 17 April 2013 13:42

Dimitris Kolovos

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Hi Oscar,

I can't reproduce c) as the following works fine for me

---
@namespace(uri="foo", prefix="")
package foo;

@exeed(icon="return 'package';")
class X {
attr XType type;
}
---

d) shouldn't work because "classIcon" is meant to be a static string. For context-specific icons, "icon" should be used instead.

Cheers,
Dimitris

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1043814 is a reply to message #1043267]

Thu, 18 April 2013 06:47

oskar saiz

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Hi Dimitris.

You are right.
c) case is also working. @exeed(icon="return 'compare';")

Anyway, I'd like to point a couple of things:

1.- According to previows message answers I would derive that the exeed documentation is not correct:
http://www.eclipse.org/epsilon/doc/articles/exeed-reference/

It says:
classIcon: EOL expression that returns the icon of the instances that conform to the EClass.

In my opinion, it should say somthing like:
classIcon: name of the icon of the instances that conform to the EClass. It is not a EOL expression but a name.

2.- When both annotations (icon and classIcon) are combined, it is not working as expected.
For instance:
@exeed(classIcon="clock")
@exeed(icon="return 'package';")

According to exeed documentation, when 'icon' is specified, it should override the classIcon annotation.

My experimentation suggest that the first annotation is "winning".

In the example above, when both annotations are used (icon and classIcon), the 'classIcon' one wins. (In the example, the "clock" icon is shown).

However, changing the order, the 'package' one wins.
@exeed(icon="return 'package';")
@exeed(classIcon="clock")

This sounds like a bug. Doesn't it?

Thanks again

Oskar

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1043849 is a reply to message #1043814]

Thu, 18 April 2013 07:34

Dimitris Kolovos

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Hi Oskar,

I've just fixed #1 on the website. Regarding #2 with the following metamodel, instances of X always appear with a "class" icon regardless of the order of the two annotations. Are you encountering a different behaviour?

--
@exeed(classIcon="class")
@exeed(icon="return 'package';")
class X {
attr XType type;
}
--

Cheers,
Dimitris

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1043859 is a reply to message #1043849]

Thu, 18 April 2013 07:48

oskar saiz

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Hi Dimitris.

Yes. If I write

@exeed(icon="return 'package';")
@exeed(classIcon="class")

always the 'package' icon appears.

Anyway, in your example the behaviour isn't either the expected one:
When both are specified, the one of the "icon" should win, in this case de 'package' icon, shouldn't it?

Thansk again

Oskar

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1043876 is a reply to message #1043859]

Thu, 18 April 2013 08:11

Dimitris Kolovos

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Hi Oskar,

You're right (I clearly shouldn't be replying to newsgroup messages before I've had coffee Smile

). I'll try to fix this shortly.

Cheers,
Dimitris

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Re: specifying icons in exeed [message #1046355 is a reply to message #1043876]

Sun, 21 April 2013 20:17

Dimitris Kolovos

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Actually, both details should go under the same annotation (Exeed only looks at the first @exeed annotation for each element):

@exeed(classIcon="class", icon="return 'package';")

Cheers,
Dimitris

[Updated on: Sun, 21 April 2013 20:17]

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