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programmatically create element in a View [message #200359]

Tue, 05 August 2008 09:51

Vadim Chepegin

Messages: 9
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Hello everybody,

We face a problem when trying to create an element in a View. What we need
is:

1. Create an element of a certain type like it is done when you use a
pallette. But we also need to create it programmatically w/o touching
items on the pallette as a reaction of specific user actions.

2. Update Model.

Help is highly appriciated.

best,
mr.woolf

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Re: programmatically create element in a View [message #200374 is a reply to message #200359]

Tue, 05 August 2008 10:22

Vadim Chepegin

Messages: 9
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

I think the problem can be reformulated:

How we can register an action (extention?) that can be triggered when the
user, for example, click a button?

This button is also created by us and it is not tool button or menu item.

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Re: programmatically create element in a View [message #200587 is a reply to message #200374]

Tue, 05 August 2008 16:27

Seweryn Niemiec

Messages: 80
Registered: July 2009

Member

mr.woolf wrote:
> I think the problem can be reformulated:
>
> How we can register an action (extention?) that can be triggered when
> the user, for example, click a button?
>
> This button is also created by us and it is not tool button or menu item.

If it's neither tool button nor menu item so what it is?

Maybe this link will be useful for you:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/GMF_Tutorial_Part_3#Custom_Actions

Seweryn

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Re: programmatically create element in a View [message #200620 is a reply to message #200587]

Tue, 05 August 2008 19:43

Vadim Chepegin

Messages: 9
Registered: July 2009

Junior Member

Thanks for the hint. Unfortunately, it is not what I am looking for.

I have a button which is does not belong to the Palette. By clicking on
this button a user triggers certain actions which should result in
creating a new element on one of the diagrams.

So, what I do is like this:

PreferencesHint preferencesHint = new
PreferencesHint("preference__hint_id");
Node newNode = ViewService.createNode(view, "BLA", preferencesHint);

The question is how I can get this *view*, which has to be a root element
of a particular diagram?

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