[gmf-dev] palette tool for creating object from a template

[Gregory Jansen <count0@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm trying to put tools on the palette that will create objects that are 
copies of template objects. The palette runtime is straight forward and 
this kind of request seems to fit within a local subclass of GMF 
CreateViewAndElementRequest, for instance:

    public TemplateObjectCreateRequest(IElementType type, final EObject 
templateObject, PreferencesHint preferencesHint) {
        super(
                new ViewAndElementDescriptor(
                    new CreateElementRequestAdapter(
                        new CreateElementRequest(type)), preferencesHint));
        this.templateObject = templateObject;
    }

Does this sound like a good approach? I'm now at the stage of 
implementing the create policy for this request and have gotten stuck there.

I'm off to read the runtime docs but any advice would be great, thanks.
Greg Jansen