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Note to non-wiki readers: This documentation is generated from the Eclipse wiki - if you have corrections or additions it would be awesome if you added them in the original wiki page.


Introduction

The GEF4 Cloudio component provides support for visualizing tag clouds within a dedicated SWT Canvas or JFace viewer. It is internally decomposed into the single Cloudio.UI module. There are also a couple of undeployed Cloudio UI Examples that demonstrate usage of the (still internal) API. The user documentation is provided in terms of the GEF4 Cloudio User Guide.

GEF4-Components-Cloudio.png

Cloudio.UI

  • feature: org.eclipse.gef4.cloudio.ui
  • bundle: org.eclipse.gef4.cloudio.ui

The Cloudio.UI module of GEF4 Cloudio realizes the Tag cloud view end-user features, as outlined in the GEF4 Cloudio User Guide. It does not provide any public API yet, but exposes its internal API (guarded by an x-friends directive).

Cloudio.UI

  • feature: org.eclipse.gef4.cloudio.ui
  • bundle: org.eclipse.gef4.cloudio.ui

The Cloudio.UI module of GEF4 Cloudio provides SWT- and JFace-based support for rendering tag clouds.

{Root}

  • package: org.eclipse.gef4.cloudio.internal.ui

The {Root} package provides an SWT widget (TagCloud) and a JFace viewer (TagCloudViewer), which support rendering of word clouds.

TagCloud, Word

A TagCloud is a special org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Canvas, dedicated to display a tag cloud. It expects the to be rendered words and related properties (weight, angle, color, font) to be represented as Word input elements and can be created as follows: 

public static void main(String [] args) {
  final Display display = new Display();
  final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
  TagCloud cloud = new TagCloud(shell, SWT.NONE);
 
  // Generate some dummy words - color, weight and fontdata must
  // always be defined.
  List<Word> words = new ArrayList<Word>();
  Word w = new Word("Hello");
  w.setColor(display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_DARK_CYAN));
  w.weight = 1;
  w.setFontData(cloud.getFont().getFontData().clone());
  words.add(w);
  w = new Word("Cloudio");
  w.setColor(display.getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_DARK_GREEN));
  w.setFontData(cloud.getFont().getFontData().clone());
  w.weight = 0.5;
  w.angle = -45;
  words.add(w);
 
  shell.setBounds(50,50, 300, 300);
  cloud.setBounds(0,0, shell.getBounds().width, shell.getBounds().height);
 
  // Assign the list of words to the cloud:
  cloud.setWords(words, null);
  shell.open();
  while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
    if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep();
  }
  display.dispose();
}

The result should look similar to this (String positions are assigned by random):

Zest cloudio snippet1.png

TagCloudViewer, ICloudLabelProvider

A TagCloudViewer is a special org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ContentViewer, that renders a tag cloud. It is internally based on a TagCloud and enhances the functionality of the tag cloud: it is possible to select and deselect elements by mouse click, to zoom in or out using the mouse wheel and to display tool tips on words. The TagCloudViewer expects an org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredContentProvider and an ICloudLabelProvider. The words that are to be rendered in the TagCloud are inferred by queuing the ICloudLabelProvider for labels of the elements returned by the org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredContentProvider. The properties of the words (weight, color, font, angle) are retrieved via the ICloudLabelProvider for each word as well.

A TagCloudViewer can be used as follows: 

  import java.util.ArrayList;
  import java.util.Arrays;
  import java.util.List;
 
  import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.BaseLabelProvider;
  import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.ISelectionChangedListener;
  import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredContentProvider;
  import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.IStructuredSelection;
  import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.SelectionChangedEvent;
  import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.StructuredSelection;
  import org.eclipse.jface.viewers.Viewer;
  import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
  import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Color;
  import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.Font;
  import org.eclipse.swt.graphics.FontData;
  import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
  import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;
  import org.eclipse.zest.cloudio.ICloudLabelProvider;
  import org.eclipse.zest.cloudio.TagCloud;
  import org.eclipse.zest.cloudio.TagCloudViewer;
 
  public class TagCloudViewerSnippet {
 
    static class CustomLabelProvider extends BaseLabelProvider implements ICloudLabelProvider {
 
        private Font font;
 
        public CustomLabelProvider(Font font) {
            this.font = font;
        }
 
        @Override
        public String getLabel(Object element) {
            return element.toString();
        }
 
        @Override
        public double getWeight(Object element) {
            return Math.random();
        }
 
        @Override
        public Color getColor(Object element) {
            return Display.getDefault().getSystemColor(SWT.COLOR_GREEN);
        }
 
        @Override
        public FontData[] getFontData(Object element) {
            return font.getFontData();
        }
 
        @Override
        public float getAngle(Object element) {
            return (float) (-90 + Math.random() * 180);
        }
 
        @Override
        public String getToolTip(Object element) {
            return element.toString();
        }
    }
 
    public static void main(String [] args) {
        final Display display = new Display();
        final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
        TagCloud cloud = new TagCloud(shell, SWT.NONE);
 
        final TagCloudViewer viewer = new TagCloudViewer(cloud);
 
        // A simple content provider for a list of elements 
        viewer.setContentProvider(new IStructuredContentProvider() {
 
            @Override
            public void dispose() { }
 
            @Override
            public void inputChanged(Viewer viewer, Object oldInput,
                    Object newInput) {}
 
            @Override
            public Object[] getElements(Object inputElement) {
                return ((List<?>)inputElement).toArray();
            }
 
        });
 
        // A simple label provider (see above)
        viewer.setLabelProvider(new CustomLabelProvider(cloud.getFont()));
 
        // Demo of an selection listener
        viewer.addSelectionChangedListener(new ISelectionChangedListener() {
 
            @Override
            public void selectionChanged(SelectionChangedEvent event) {
                IStructuredSelection selection = (IStructuredSelection) viewer.getSelection();
                System.out.println("Selection: " + selection);
            }
        });
 
        // Demo data
        List<String> data = new ArrayList<String>();
        data.add("Hello");
        data.add("World");
        data.add("Hello Cloudio");
 
        shell.setBounds(50,50, 300, 300);
        cloud.setBounds(0,0, shell.getBounds().width, shell.getBounds().height);
 
        // Set the input of the viewer
        viewer.setInput(data);
 
        // Set initial selection:
        viewer.setSelection(new StructuredSelection(Arrays.asList("Hello Cloudio")));
 
        shell.open();
        while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch()) display.sleep();
        }
        display.dispose();
    }
  }

The result will look similar to this:

Zest cloudio snippet2.png

Layout

  • package: org.eclipse.gef4.cloudio.internal.ui.layout

The Layout package provides the contract (ILayouter) for algorithms that perform placement of words during tag cloud generation, as well as a related default implementation (DefaultLayouter).

ILayouter, DefaultLayouter

An ILayouter is used by a TagCloud to compute the actual placement of words inside a given area. The DefaultLayouter places words similar to the algorithm used by Wordle.

Util

  • package: org.eclipse.gef4.cloudio.internal.ui.util

The Util package provides a two-dimensional tree structure to store non-overlapping rectangles (RectTree), a custom rectangle implementation (SmallRect) with short precision used by it (which will probably be replaced with org.eclipse.gef4.geometry.planar.Rectangle in the future), and a CloudMatrix, which represents a drawable area within a tag cloud through a RectTree.

RectTree, RectNode, SmallRect

A RectTree is a two-dimensional tree structure to store non-overlapping rectangles that are represented through RectNodes, which are internally based on a short-precision rectangle representation (SmallRect).

CloudMatrix

A CloudMatrix represents the drawable area within a tag cloud (and information about which word is placed at which coordinate), internally based on a RectTree.

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This page was last modified 04:50, 28 May 2016 by Alexander Nyßen. Based on work by Alexander Nyßen and Stephan Schwiebert.

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