[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: Location of child parts in container

["Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

See ChopboxAnchor for an example
"Barry Lay" <blay@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thank you, that got the job done.  Incidently, what does the parameter
> do?  The API mentions that the anchor "...may use the given reference
> Point..." but doesn't say what it refers to.  I notice that the logic
> diagram example ignores it.
>
> Randy Hudson wrote:
> > Your anchor should derive the location when it is asked getLocation.  If
you
> > do it any sooner, the figures aren't in the correct place.  For
performance
> > reasons, layouts only occur hopefully once and in the order of
depencies,
> > such as connections depending on their nodes.