[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: Editing capabilities with GEF in Eclipse Vi

[Pascal Gelinas <pascal.gelinas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

valeri111 wrote:
>   Hi all,
> Is it possible to create an Eclipse View with editing capabilities 
> provided by GEF ( to act as editor but in a view )?

The outline view is a good candidate to start with, since gef provide a 
class to be embedded in the outline view (ContentOutlinePage). You can 
do anything you'd do with an editor with it. However, it need to be 
binded with an editor which will provide an instance of this class when 
asked for a IContentOutlinePage through getAdapter(Class). Nevertheless, 
it shows well that it is possible to create a view with editing 
capabilities.

Other then the outline view, I think it could be pretty easy since 
basically all you have to do is to set the control of the view with the 
control of the gef viewer. I've never done this though...

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