Revision as of 08:14, 13 March 2015

Textual Editor For Named Element

//WORK IN PROGRESS

Since Papyrus 1.1.0 (Eclipse Mars), Papyrus provides a new texutal editor to edit references to UML NamedElement. This editor works only for references which are not in containment. This editor has not been developped using XText. it use a custom string parser and the class NameReoslutionHelper to find named elements from their name. This string editor works for all references multiplicities.

Grammar

• in case of multivalued references, the separator between the name of the element is the comma,
• if the name contains a comma, the string typed by the user must be prefixed and suffixed by a single quote '

Generic Behavior

• the value typed by the user are checked and the value is not committed if the named element is not found (an error message is displayed to the user)
• completion
  • CTRL-SPACE opens a popup providing an helper for the completion
    • if the text field is empty, the completion provides only the null value
    • if more than 15 elements are found to match the string, we display only the 15 first values + the null + ... to prevent the user than more values are available

Property View

This editor has been added to the list of available editors for the property view

• ref1 for single reference
• ref2 for multi reference

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NatTable Cell Editor Integration

Papyrus provide an integration of this editor for Papyrus NatTable.

• a button is displayed at the right of the text field to open a dialog. It allows to the user to edit the cell as text or selected the new value directly in the model tree with the dialog

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