[news.eclipse.modeling.gmf] Re: Parent-child layout problem

[Cherie Revells <crevells@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Merlin,

The behavior you are seeing use the affixed parent side is expected. 
There is a locator used to determine where these border item figures 
should be placed.  You can customize the locator used to place the 
figures where you want.

Regards,
Cherie


Merlin wrote:
> Hi, I am new with GMF and I am trying to get use of the layouts... but 
> somehow I am not able to do it right. What I want to achieve is the 
> following - one figure which children (two types of children) are 
> displayed left and right (according to the type) at the figure rand. I 
> thought using BorderLayout and two compartments for the childes, but I 
> can't get it right. The best I got was by using affixed parent side, bit 
> this solution seems not stable enough - when I resize the figure or add 
> more childes, it is not clear where the new child will appear - on top, 
> bottom or even on the opposite side of the figure - when there are more 
> childes.
>
> This is what I want to achieve:
> _____________
> |             |
> |O           O|
> |O            |
> |             |
> |_____________|
>
> Can someone please post an example how a parent can layout it's childes?
> Some clues at least?
>
> Thanks a lot, I am really stuck for some time...
>
> Merlin