[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: EditPartViewer.findObjectAt problem

["Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx>]

findObjectAt(Point) works for me. Maybe your editpart is not registered with 
its figure? You should step into the find method and see where it is 
failing.

"Kevin O'Riordan" <k.oriordan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:dtic5j$3tl$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hey all, I'm having a problem here and was wondering if anyone could shine 
> some light.
>
> I'm trying to find out what EditPart/Figure is under the cursor at any 
> moment.
>
> Using EditPartViewer.findObjectAt(<point>) gives me back the root edit 
> part but not the specific edit part.
>
> I've tried using EditPartViewer.findObjectAtExcluding(Point position, 
> Collection exclusionList, Conditional condition) in both the following 
> ways to specify I don't want the root edit part:
>
> 1) Giving it a List containing the root edit part that I don't want.
> 2) Using the following Conditional
>     new EditPartViewer.Conditional() {
>         public boolean evaluate(EditPart part) {
>             return part instanceof <type of part I want>;
>         }
>     }
>
> But both of them still give me back the root.
>
> Anyone got any ideas? I was thinking of locating the IFigure instead and 
> working from there, but getLightWeightSystem() is a protected method in 
> EditPartViewer so I can't access it.
>
> Regards,
> Kevin.