[News.eclipse.technology.gmf] Re: Couple questions related with GMF

["ps" <paul.shi@xxxxxxxxx>]

Cool, could you send it to my email registered with this discussion group? 
I'd like to play with it a bit. Thanks!

Paul

"Martin Herbort" <martinherbort@xxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>
> Ah, okay:
>
> It's because GridLayout isn't officially supported! That means, that you 
> can choose it in your model but the relevent classes are indeed not 
> available.
> If you like, I can send you a (inofficial) patch that we use successfully 
> in our project.
>
> Martin.
>
>
> ps wrote:
>> Hi Martin,
>> Yes, I'm aware of that. The issue I had is when I generate the diagram 
>> code using GridLayout in RoundedRuleFigure, I always get a compilation 
>> error in RuleEditPart about this line:
>> org.eclipse.gmf.internal.codegen.draw2d.GridLayout myGenLayoutManager = 
>> new org.eclipse.gmf.internal.codegen.draw2d.GridLayout();
>>
>> Basicly GridLayout can't be resolved.
>>
>> So if you can use GridLayout, then that means the generation code works 
>> fine for you, that's something I don't understand.
>>
>> Thanks for your response!
>>
>> Paul
>>
>>
>>
>> "Martin Herbort" <martinherbort@xxxxxx> wrote in message 
>> news:e98b4s$t59$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Hi Paul,
>>>
>>> (without having opened your model file:)
>>>
>>> I first had similar problem with the layouts. When you want a container
>>> to layout its children along e.g. a GridLayout, then you need to do two
>>> things (some users - as me - omitted the second one ...):
>>>
>>> 1. Add a 'GridLayout' to the *container* (i.e. the RoundedRuleFigure)
>>> 2. Add a 'GridLayoutData' to each of the *children*
>>>
>>> Note that you can replace 'GridLayout' and 'GridLayoutData' by e.g.
>>> 'FlowLayout' and 'FlowLayoutData'.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
>>> ps wrote:
>>>> Hi there,
>>>> I have attached a project "gmf.test" which contains all the models 
>>>> needed
>>>> (all very simple ones). If you could give it a spin and answer some of 
>>>> my
>>>> questions? (you need to generate gmf.test.edit and gmf.test.diagram
>>>> presumably).
>>>>
>>>> 1. When I run the plugins and create a defaut.rule_diagram, the 
>>>> behaviour is
>>>> different than I'd expect. For example, I expect RoundedRuleFigure'd 
>>>> use
>>>> FlowLayout to layout its children figures - 
>>>> RuleEntitiesCompartmentFigure
>>>> and RuleActionsCompartmentFigure; I expect 
>>>> RuleEntitiesCompartmentFigure'd
>>>> use StackLayout to place RuleEntity. But they are not.
>>>>
>>>> 2. I tried to use GridLayout, and the generated code complains about 
>>>> not
>>>> being able to result GridLayout in draw2d package.
>>>>
>>>> 3. I couldn't direct edit the label for RuleEntity and RuleAction, 
>>>> there is
>>>> an exception thrown:
>>>> java.lang.NullPointerException
>>>>  at
>>>> org.eclipse.gmf.runtime.diagram.ui.editpolicies.LabelDirectEditPolicy.getDirectEditCommand(LabelDirectEditPolicy.java:90)
>>>>
>>>> I've to admit it's probably due to my limited GMF knowledge but I 
>>>> really
>>>> belive it should work, so could you look into it and tell me what's 
>>>> wrong?
>>>> I'd appreciate any help!
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Paul
>>>>
>>>>
>>