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Model Editing Enhancements
Customizing Tree Views
The EMF Edit framework and its code generator allow creating easily editors and tree views from EMF models. However, the structure that we want displaying into tree view may be often different to the EMF model structure. The EMF Edit framework provides also mechanisms allowing customizing editors and tree views.
In the following sections, we’ll describe how to easily customize tree views in order to display customized tree view structure. There are several kings of tree view customization. For instance, we may want displaying object references as children, adding non-model elements or suppressing model objects in tree views. We’ll use an extract of the Hummingbird meta-model to illustrate these kinds of tree views customization, as shown in following image: