[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: [Databinding] Generic visualization of EObj

["John E. Conlon" <jconlon@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

Here is the url to Ed's patch.
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/attachment.cgi?id=82033

While I am not using the patched class, I have taken some ideas from it 
to get to the point I am at.  Again - I am leveraging the genmodel 
decorated Edit attributes like description, categories, and filter flags 
 to add more visual coherence to the form.

As it turned out I began this attempt two months ago and promptly paged 
out all knowledge of databinding since then:(  So now I will review to 
recover lost ground, refactor so it is more applicable to generic emf 
usage and then try to advance the solution farther.

Alternatively if someone has already created a generic form to replace 
the Properties view for EMF, I will defer to that effort, if not, I 
would like to move what I have forward and contribute it back to the 
community.


cheers,
John



Tom Schindl wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Maybe I'm blind but it couldn't find a patch which gives me a starting
> point in bug #75625. I'm traveling the next 2 weeks but if you could
> give me some code to play with I'll try to take a look though I can't
> promise because my schedule for the next month is fairly tight.
>
> Tom
>
> John E. Conlon schrieb:
> > Ed,
> > see inline...
> >
> > Ed Merks wrote:
> > > John,
> > >
> > > Maybe Tom has some experience with this...
> > Hope so.  So far, I am fairly encouraged by how well the view looks
> > based on what you have done in your patch and the hacks I have added to
> > visualize this in a master-detail view that uses the GenModel Property
> > Categories as labeled Widget Groups and Property Descriptions as tool
> > tips on the detail side.  With a little more work it may even prove an
> > acceptable replacement for our Properties View.
> >
> >
> > > Looking at what
> > > org.eclipse.emf.edit.ui.provider.PropertyDescriptor.createPropertyEditor
> > > does and at how some of the specialized cell editors it used are
> > > implemented would likely help...
> > thanks for the reminder.
> >
> > John
> > > John E. Conlon wrote:
> > > > Am attempting to expand the Forms Editor that Ed provided in
> > > > https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=75625
> > > >
> > > > Have been able to deal with EAttributes 0..1 using text and combo
> > > > widgets. But still need to:
> > > >
> > > >  1.  visualize and bind features that are EReferences (0..1 and 0..N)?
> > > >
> > > >  2.  and to duplicate the functionality that the Property View
> > > > provides by displaying EMF validation error messages in the Workbench
> > > > status line.
> > > >
> > > > Are there any snippets or Examples that demonstrates these?
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > > John