RE: [ve-dev] Disabling swing Palette

[Rich Kulp <richkulp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

"Janak Mulani" <janak.mulani@xxxxxxxxx>
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10/14/2004 03:47 AM

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Hi Rich,
 
We felt the need for greater control
over the palette. Thanks for taking this up.
 
I agree with you. The order does
not matter in the second pass anyway because all the categories are already
available.
 
However, can you take the order
from the plugin dependencies specified in the plugin.xml? That will give
some "declarative" handle. I read some where that contributors
of all the plugins on which a plugin depends will be called before the
contributor of that plugin. 

>>> RLK >>>
The updates for any particular ContainerID contributor are in plugin order,
however your problem is that the contributors are for two different containers,
JRE Container and ULC Container. There is no "plugin order" that
can be defined between different container ids. All of the contributors
for a containerid are called in the plugin order of the contributions.
But the order that containerids are processed is undetermined. There is
no particular order to them. We process per container id.
 
Moreover, is there a possibility
to dynamically add beans to the palette? For instance, if one create a
class that extends a bean which is on the palette. This class is available
to in Choose Beans. It will be nice if it is available on the palette too.
This will help when one is making custom UI components. Bug 50409 is also
about this issue.

>>> RLK >>>
That is not something that can be addressed at this time. We can't automatically
add a bean just because it extends one on the palette. It has to be a conscious
choice by the user. If we added all beans that extend a bean on the palette
then the palette would get too large too quickly.
 
Thanks
 
- Janak
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From: ve-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ve-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx]On
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Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 7:49 PM
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Subject: Re: [ve-dev] Disabling swing Palette


Janak, 

As for the problem with the palette, I'm thinking of doing this. What do
you think? Please let me know so that I can start developing it.

I'm thinking of changing the IVEContributor so that it has a two-pass contribution.

Pass 1 would be to contribute categories. During this call, only categories
can be added. Contributor should not move, or remove any other categories

After all contributors had a chance to add categories they will be called
back with pass 2. In this pass they may move or remove categories. They
mustn't add any cats. at this time. This will give everyone a chance to
see the full list. 

In both passes the order the contributors are called is still undetermined.
This isn't any determined order that makes sense for this that I can think
of. 

Thanks, 
Rich