I am beginning to think that when you say palette you just mean
model. When we say palette here we mean a set of tools that are
displayed in a specific view. Such as, line draw tool, selection
tool, text tool, etc. When these are all put together in a sort of
tool bar, we call it a pallette.
If you mean the storable class that gets written to and read from a
file, or some other storage medium, we call that the model.
Is that consistent with what you are thinking?
Frank Dyck wrote:
I would save it in the preferences. unless you want each editor
view to have its own customized palette.
Preferences store =
yourPlugin.getDefault().getPluginPreferences(); //a static
method of grabbing your plugin, then getting the preferences
from it
Well actually the palette is more bound the resource you create
with it.So IÂm thinking more property at the moment.
Bound to the resource or the resource type? Is your pallete more
like the outline view in that it presents some data from the Views
model?
Bound to the resource. There is only one type that my editor opens.
I think i don`t understand the second question...
My palette provides tools to generate the views model.
But my question is more: How do i store it? ItÂs an rdf model.
your asking how to store the model or how to store the palette? or
both?
Store the palette (the palette-model :-))
Sorry about the misleading terms.
I convert the gef-palette to an RDFModel object which i can
read/write to a file.
As far as i understand you normally add string properties to a
property page.
It also makes not much sense ATM do be able to edit it in either
a property or preferences page. (Or iÂd have to put the whole
PaletteCustomizer functionality into the page...)
I had properties before I ever made my property editor page.
Gotta start somewhere.
How do you setProperties of a Resource?
I`m a complete newbie to this.
I just added the example extension PropertyPage and looked at it a bit.
As far as i see it without the property page i would do something
like this,
where i normally write the palette to a file:
ResourcesPlugin.getWorkspace().getRoot().setPersistentProperty(
new QualifiedName("", PALETTE_PROPERTY),
someShortStringValue);
Where the value should be representing the palette.
But setPersistentProperty says to store short strings as values.
I want to store an object of the type RDFModel.
I mean i can convert it to a String but it won`t be under 2KB short!
So at the moment I just want to store the rdf model or file
somewhere along with the resource, and be able to load it on
startup (from Editor.java) and get/set it from the customizerÂs
save/revertToSaved methods.
again, im getting mixed up. The rdf is the model, or the palette
or is this the same thing? or is the resource the model?
:-) It`s pretty confusing/misleading.
I convert the palette to an rdf-model-object(from jena). So that is
what i want to store.
(I want to be able to export it later and can already read in
palettes from rdf files.)