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Re: [mylyn-integrators] Question: rich read-only task "editor"?
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I am aware of a few Mylyn connector editors that completely override the
layout of the AbstractRepositoryTaskEditor. You are free to do so but
just be aware of any fields that are expected to exists are some how
instantiated with your code. It is not as easy as it should be.
Steffen is in the process of decomposing the task editor for Mylyn 3.0
so that it will be much easier to extend and customize in the future.
-Rob
Tom Bryan (tombry) wrote:
Excellent. Thanks for the quick response.
I see that AbstractRepositoryTaskEditor makes it really easy to create a
repository-specific editor, but what if there are specific requirements
for the appearance of the GUI. Is it considered a poor policy to
override AbstractRepositoryTaskEditor.createFormContent and create an
editor with a completely different look-and-feel? For example, what if
we want to group the task's attributes in a specific way using
org.eclipse.widgets.Group, and we don't want any of the standard form
sections that other task editors have. I'm not keen on deviating from
the standard look-and-feel, but I may have a requirement for a
significantly different task editor.
Basically, do all of the custom repository task editors look alike
because that's the easiest way, or do all of the custom repository task
editors look alike because Mylyn requires that they all follow some
framework that does not provide sufficient flexibility to do anything
else?
---Tom
Robert Elves wrote on Tuesday, May 06, 2008 2:20 PM:
Tom,
There is no reason why this couldn't be done. Extend
AbstractRepositoryTaskEditor and override the addActionButtons()
method to eliminate the submit button.
-Rob
Tom Bryan (tombry) wrote:
I'd appreciate it if someone could answer this question. It will
get some managers off my back. :)
I'm connecting to a repository, which currently only has an API for
reading tasks. That is, there is no way to update most of the
fields of a task via an API. For viewing the task details, they do
not want me simply to launch the web UI pointing to that task.
They would like a rich task editor for this repository that just
does not permit task updates.
That seems like an uncommon request, but that's what I need to do
for now. Is there any reason why a read only rich editor for a
repository connector wouldn't work with Mylyn 2.3?
--
Robert Elves
Mylyn Committer, http://eclipse.org/mylyn
