[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: problem with flowLayoutEditPolicy

["Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Open a feature request.  These two layout could implement a common interface 
used by the editpolicy.

"Hao Zhang" <bjzhanghao@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:d1pge6$u2e$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hello Randy:
> I want to use FlowLayoutEditPolicy with ToolbarLayout, but it throws a
> ClassCastException. I have to override isHorizontal() to avoid this, now 
> it
> works fine. I wonder if it it the proper way.
>
> Regards
> Hao
>
>
> "Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> дÈëÓʼþ news:bgbptt$jnu$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> FlowLayoutEditPolicy should be used with either FlowLayout or
> ToolbarLayout.
>> In both cases, you never call setBounds() on a figure, only the layout
> does
>> this.
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>> "Brian Fernandes" <brian.fernandes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:bgbep2$6ji$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> > For one of my objects, I'm using a flowLayoutEditPolicy.
>> >
>> > So far I've overridden the getCreateCommand similar to that in
>> > LogicFlowEditPolicy.
>> >
>> > What I need is to position my children objects such that they are 
>> > within
>> the
>> > parent. (obviously) So am I supposed to get the location of the parent
> and
>> > then position the child ? Should I do this in the createFigure of the
>> > childrens edit parts ? What about the repositioning of the other edit
>> parts
>> > ? or is it that everytime an element gets added, we go call
> refreshVisuals
>> > which goes through all the children and repositions them according to
>> their
>> > indices ? (would there be a problem accomodating objects of different
>> sizes
>> > here ? )
>> >
>> >
>> > Flow layout is supposed to detect the index automatically, so how does
> it
>> > manage this ? If I manage to position the child object properly, just
>> using
>> > createFigure, is that enough for the edit policy ? Also,  the marker
> that
>> > needs to be drawn is being drawn at the top left corner of the screen 
>> > (a
>> > short thick diagonal line), irrespective of where the object (which has
>> the
>> > flowLayoutEditPolicy) is being drawn.
>> > This seems to indicate that I'm doing something wrong with this
> object...
>> or
>> > with the children perhaps ?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Brian.
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