[stp-dev] BPMN Editor - Some Questions About Annotation support

[Andrea Zoppello <andrea.zoppello@xxxxxx>]

Hi all,

I'm loooking at the code in source in stp bpmn editor distribution to 
drag and drop files in the bpmn editor diagaram using the annotation 
concept.

First aff all thanks for supporting that, it's a very useful feature.

I've tried to implement my view and drag and drop feature following the 
tutorial on the eclipse wiki, to support Intermediate Model in BPMN 
diagram editor.

I've three questions:

1) If i drop a file to an activity, and then close immediately the 
editor it seems that the annotation is not saved in bpmn file.Otherwise
if after the annotation drop i go to the property view in annotation 
section and i touch a property of the annotation than it's correctly 
saved in bpmn file. This is not a very big problem, but i don't figure 
why the annotation is not saved immediately.

2) In the file example, i've notice that the icons that decorate the 
activity shape when a file is dropped is contained inside the activity 
shape. I implemented a decorator class and my icon is there when i drop 
the annotation but it's visualized outside the activity shape.
I dont't know about this because the decorators have the same business 
logic of the file one. Any idea? It depends by the icon size?

3) I dont't know ho to add to the right context menù of the bpmn diagram
an action that drop my annotation. Is there any suggestion to support that?


Cheers
Andrea Zoppello
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