[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: draw2d: label follows figure

[Nhu Le <nle.misc@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you want a label that is always at the same location wrt the figure, 
then you have to create your own figure with some transparent border to 
put the label (to create the illusion that the label is outside the 
figure).  Look into getHandleBounds() of interface HandleBounds.

If you want a label that can be moved anywhere on the screen (like in 
the case of a label of a port for a component) then you may want to 
create another layer for your labels and create a label locator class 
(extends AbstractLocator).  The parent-child figure relationship will 
obviously not like usual but since the label should be the leaf of the 
relationship tree, you can probably create a simple (like getOwner()???) 
just so that you can get to the figure from the label (to replace 
getParent()).

Nhu

Aleksandr Kravets wrote:
> Hello,
>
> In my GEF application I have a figure which is basically an ImageFigure. 
> I am looking for a way to create a label that follows that figure. I 
> tried using DelegatingLayout on my figure, but of course the label is 
> positioned in the figure, may be there is a way to offset the 
> positioning of the label so it's outside the figure?
>
> Thanks for your help,
> Alex