[news.eclipse.modeling.gmf] Re: Location of a EditPart and setLocation i

[Cherie Revells <crevells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Jörg,

If the location is relative to myEditPart's parent bounds, try this:
myEditPart.getFigure().getParent().translateToAbsolute(theLocation);

If you wanted to convert the absolute value to be relative to another 
editpart you could do this:
anotherEditPart.getFigure().translateToRelative(theLocation);

I hope that helps.

- Cherie


Jörg Weinmann wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have some problems with the conversion between relative and absolute 
> coordinates.
>
> I have a gmf generated editor and I want to use the CreateViewRequest 
> Request to create a new model element and its view.
> AFAIU expects the setLocation methode of the request an absolute location, 
> but the EditPart.getLocation returns a location realive to the EditParts 
> parent.
>
> So my question is: If I have the realitve location of a EditPart (strictly 
> speaking the corresponding View), how can I convert this location to 
> absolute value?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>  Jörg