Hi Joe,
Thank you for the update and heads-up of
what’s coming up. I’m trying to extend VE for Draw2D figures.
Draw2D figures are not widget based and they may contain child figures. So I
think the first of the two examples you outlined will be a good guide for me.
To make the target VM draw a figure, I think I need to know how
BeanProxyAdapter works with the target VM. I also think that I need to know the
in-depths of the codegen subsystem so that I know how to write decoders to
parse the java code of Draw2D figures.
Releasing the example code before the
tutorial docs will be very helpful in quenching my thirst! ;-)
Thanks,
Chaur Wu
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Hi Gary,
For
the first tutorial we have actually been asked to split it into two parts and
reformat it for the eclipsecorner articles section so we're doing that at the
moment. The next two subjects we were going to tackle are:
1 - A
fairly involved example where the scenario is some classes that aren't widget
subclasses but nevertheless have widgets with the pattern of
createControl(Composite) and getControl() type methods. This pattern is
similar to that found with JFace and preference pages and the like and would
cover things like how to model containment in EMF, more depth in the use of
graphical edit parts and the target VM proxies and code generation.
2 - An
example what shows how to use the Visual Editor without any Java code
generation. This would show how to open and persist an XML format and
will be based around XSWT which is a persistent XML format for SWT.
We
have started on the first of these although right now we're aboug 1/2 way
through writing the actual plugin example, after which we'll document it. Does
this sound like good topics for the next two tutorials, or is there anything
else you'd like to see covered ? As for dates all I know is that they are
not comitted M2 items as right now we're still working on reformatting the
first tutorial so it is production ready for the eclipsecorner editors.
One
thing we should maybe do is actually write the example plugins and code for
both examples before we document them - that way people can install the plugins
and play with them before we doc them, as I'm finding out that the actual
exercise of creating the tutorial is almost as much if not more work than
writing the example code.
Best
regards,
Joe
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Hi,
I've read the tutorial that extends VE for a
custom widget. In the tutorial,
it mentions that there will be more tutorials
showing how to extend the
target VM subsystem and the codegen subsystem. The
first tutorial is very
helpful and I'm very eager to know when the others
will be available.
Thanks,
Chaur Wu
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