Re: [ve-dev] Not able to Customise Java Beans View

[Joe Winchester <WINCHEST@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rashmi,

The JavaBeans view is created by the
JavaVisualEditorPart which returns it as the answer to the question
        getAdapter(BeansList.class);
This returns an instance of JavaVisualEditorOutlinePage.
 This is the class that is the JavaBeans view and it creates the topmost
object that is a SubclassCompositionComponentsTreeEditPart.  This
class is responsible for creating the children beneath it.

There are two ways I think you could
get your own children into the tree.
First - if you have your own editor
that subclassed JavaVisualEditorPart you could return your own outline
page that would control the children.  However if you don't already
have your own editor this would be a hack.

Second - some kind of extension API
should be opened up.  I think the best would be that the SubclassCompositionComponentsTreeEditPart
wasn't hard coded as it currently is, but instead came from looking up
a decorator that you could change with a .override, although this would
have to be an BeanComposition which isn't a reflected JavaObject (most
of our .overrides are from target VM Java classes).

Rich - do you have any ideas ?

Best regards,

Joe Winchester

Please respond to Discussions people developing code for the Visual Editor project <ve-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Sent by:        ve-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx

To:        <ve-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
cc:        
Subject:        [ve-dev] Not able to Customise Java Beans View


Hi all ,
I'm currently working on extending the VE to support additional feature for my custom implementation.
For this exercise, I need to access the components of the JavaBean View. The JavaBean View needs to be customised to show both visual and non-visual components present in the java file. Is there any API provided for developers to access the JavaBean View components and does this API help me to add and modify the Tree values in the JavaBean View? My specific customisations include grouping or categorising identical elements together and providing nodes for non-visual components. For example, if there are 3 JPanels in my java code, they need to appear as 3 nodes under a heading "Panel" in the Javabean view. I need to add a new non-visual node ["abc"] when my java code has a variable declaration like "String abc = new String()" as a class variable. I have tried going through the current API and the source code available for tracking the JavaBean View components, but it has not been fruitful.

Help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
-Rashmi

_______________________________________________
ve-dev mailing list
ve-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/ve-dev