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* Append to the ''class'' attribute: '''&contextMenuId=#ProductionsPopup'''
 
* Append to the ''class'' attribute: '''&contextMenuId=#ProductionsPopup'''
  
Now your browser should have a context menu registered with the specified ID. You can check this by launching the movie.product, activating the ''Productions'' view and pressing ''Control+Shift+F1''. A ''Plug-in Spy'' window should pop up and give information on the view.
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Now your browser should have a context menu registered with the specified ID. You can check this by launching the movie product, activating the ''Productions'' view and pressing ''Control+Shift+F1''. A ''Plug-in Spy'' window should pop up and give information on the view. It should say:
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The active menu contribution identifiers:
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    #ProductionsPopup
  
 
== Step 3: Add Property View for Model Browser ==
 
== Step 3: Add Property View for Model Browser ==

Revision as of 15:10, 20 October 2010

In this part of the tutorial we will focus on implementing the basic functionality for the following parts of the UI:

  • Model Browser for modelling movie production cases
    • Basic context menu actions for the browser
      • Add > Movie Project
      • Add > Casting Plan
      • Add > Role
  • Property View for editing properties of model entities
  • Movie Database Library for searching available movies, actors, directors, etc.

Step 1: Customize Model Browser

To customize the model browser for the movie production case, we cannot directly use the existing view added to the perspective in the previous part of the tutorial. We need to create a new view extension to parametrize the view properly.

Lets add the new view extension.

  • Open com.acme.movie.ui / META-INF/MANIFEST.MF >> Extensions
  • Add a new extension, org.eclipse.ui.views
  • Add view category
    • org.eclipse.ui.views >> right click >> new >> category
    • id = com.acme.movie.ui.category
    • name = Movie Production
  • Add view
    • org.eclipse.ui.views >> right click >> new >> view
    • id = com.acme.movie.ui.productions
    • name = Productions
    • class = org.simantics.browsing.ui.swt.GraphExplorerView:browseContext=http://com.acme/Movie-1.0/Productions
    • category = com.acme.movie.ui.category
TODO: explain the class parameter contents

In the same extension editor, modify the existing view perspective extension to use the new view.

  • Find the extension in the tree:
    org.eclipse.ui.perspectiveExtensions >>
    com.acme.movie.ui.perspective (perspectiveExtension) >>
    org.simantics.structural.ui.modelBrowser
  • Modify org.simantics.structural.ui.modelBrowser to com.acme.movie.ui.productions

Step 2: Add Context Menu Actions for Model Browser

First we need to define an ID for the context menu to be registered for the production browser. This happens by once again modifying the class attribute of our view extension. The ID of our context menu will be #ProductionsPopup.

  • Find our production view extension: org.eclipse.ui.views >> Productions (view)
  • Append to the class attribute: &contextMenuId=#ProductionsPopup

Now your browser should have a context menu registered with the specified ID. You can check this by launching the movie product, activating the Productions view and pressing Control+Shift+F1. A Plug-in Spy window should pop up and give information on the view. It should say:

The active menu contribution identifiers:
    #ProductionsPopup

Step 3: Add Property View for Model Browser

Step 4: Add Content for Movie Database Library