[news.eclipse.tools.gef] draw2d.text indent strategy

["Rob Grzywinski" <rgrzywinski@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It is my desire to add various indenting strategies to a FlowFigure.  I 
started off with the standard techniques (i.e. MarginBorder) but it seems 
that IFigure.getInsets() is only accounted for in FlowPage (and not in 
BlockFlow, InlineFlow or TextFlow).

After a bit of research it seems that there are two points during which 
"layout" (as it is needed for indenting) for a TextFlow occurs: 
ParagraphTextLayout.layout (where a line is split into multiple lines as 
necessary) and LineBox.commit (where a line's children are positioned). 
Shrinking the available space that a line has based on getInsets() seems to 
be trivial in ParagraphTextLayout.  The problem comes in when laying out the 
children fragments (FlowBoxes) in LineBox;  LineBox knows nothing about the 
FlowFigure from which it is derived so it cannot know about any indenting 
strategy (e.g. getInsets()).

I am interested in the following:
o  Is there already work going on for indenting strategies?
o  Am I on the right track (i.e. do the locations that I've identified 
represent the whole of the problem that I am attempting to solve)?

Thanks!

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Rob Grzywinski