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Re: Displaying custom Magritte view on FAMIX model

Posted by Peter Uhnak on Sep 21, 2015; 8:12pm
URL: https://forum.world.st/Displaying-custom-Magritte-view-on-FAMIX-model-tp4851330p4851390.html

Hmm,

> You seem to want to work directly at FAMIX level. This means that you just have an object, which happens to be a FAMIXClass instance, and want to describe it with Magritte.

I thought that I don't need to describe FAMIX models with magritte, because it is autogenerated from <MSEProperty: #someSelector type: #SomeClass>.

So I must describe it myself?

> What would you expect to get for declaredType?

Well the descriptions of it... so in a single form I would have all the descriptions.

If I do it with my own descriptions... e.g.

FAMIXBehavioralEntity>>descriptionDeclaredType

^ MAToOneRelationDescription new

selectorAccessor: #declaredType;

label: 'Declared Type';

yourself

Then I at least get buttons for it (I didn't manage to achieve this with the autogenerated descriptions)

However I would still like the option to specify whether I want a new window to show up or let it be embedded in a single form.

I managed to track down something like MAInternalEditorMorph which maybe should do what I want but if I apply it it has no effect... so maybe it's broken or I don't know how to use it.

Thanks,
Peter

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Tudor Girba <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi,

Metanool offers you a way to define new properties and edit those. Thus, it works at the FM3 level (which is a meta-model of FAMIX).

You seem to want to work directly at FAMIX level. This means that you just have an object, which happens to be a FAMIXClass instance, and want to describe it with Magritte.

For example, for adding a Name property, you can add this method:

FAMIXClass>>descriptionName
<magritteDescription>
^ MAStringDescription new
accessor: #name;
label: 'Name';
yourself

And you get:

What would you expect to get for declaredType?

Cheers,
Doru

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Peter Uhnák <[hidden email]> wrote:
Hi,

I would like to build custom magritte view for a FAMIX model, however
it seems that Fame/Metanool are somehow interfering with it..

Imagine a simple model (a class with an attribute):
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
cls := FAMIXClass new name: 'Something'.

(attr := FAMIXAttribute new)
name: 'myAttribute';
declaredType: (FAMIXClass new name: 'OtherThing').

cls addAttribute: attr.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

now I can open the magritte description
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
attr mooseDescription asMagritteDescription asMagritteMorph openInWindow.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
However this is a meta description, which I don't want...

So second option was to build it manually; I extract descriptions that
I am interested in....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
container := MAContainer new addAll: ({
attr mooseDescription at: 'name'.
attr mooseDescription at: 'declaredType'.
} collect: #asMagritteDescription).

(container asMorphOn: attr) openInWindow.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

However the problem with this is, that the declaredType is presented
as TextField, which is not very useful.

So I'm kind of lost...

basically what I want to do is to have a MAContainer that contains
both the Attribute's name and #declaredType's name.

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Peter

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