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Sirius/Tutorials/Mindstorms/EditionTools
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Container and edition tools
Objectives
Enhance a basic Diagram to display the sub-choreographies with a container showing the sub-instructions and provide tools to allow the user to create new instructions and sub-diagrams.
- Container
- Sub-choregraphies with the list of their sub-instructions
- Double-click Tool
- Create/Open a diagram by double-clicking on a Choreography
- Creation Tools
- A button for each kind of instruction
- Two buttons for Rotate (left and right)
Sirius concepts
During this step, you will mainly use these Sirius concepts:
- Container
- Describes model elements displayed via a box which can show sub-elements
- Color Palette
- Defines custom colors
- Section
- Describes a category of tools in the palette
- Node Creation Tool
- Describes the tool in the palette that allows the user to create a new node
- Container Creation Tool
- Describes the tool in the palette that allows the user to create a new container
- Double-click Tool
- Describes the action to perform when the user double-clicks on a diagram element
Video
Watch the video (18'25)
Detailed script
Use a container to display the sub-choreographies with their instructions
- In the Default Layer, delete the Node
CD_SubChoreography
and replace it by a Container that will display the Choreography with its sub-instructions
- Id = CD_SubChoreography
- Domain Class = mindstorms::Choreography
- Semantic Candidate Expression = feature:instructions
- Children Presentation = List
- Create a Style of type Gradient
- Label Format = Bold
- Create a Style of type Gradient
- Add this container to the Source and Target mappings of the edge
CD_Next
Note: To display the sub-instructions, we will use a unique sub-node and compute the label with a service written in Java
- Define a service that computes the label of any kind of instruction.
- Copy the source code of the Method named getLabel from the file methods.txt into the class
Services.java
- Copy the source code of the Method named getLabel from the file methods.txt into the class
- In CD_SubChoreography, Create a Sub Node named
CD_SubInstruction
- Domain Class = mindstorms::Instruction
- Semantic Candidate Expression = feature:instructions
- Define a default Style (any kind of style with a label property, for example Square)
- Show Icon = true
- Label Expression = service:getLabel()
- Now, the diagram on the sample model should look like this:
- Define a specific color for the container’s background
- Create a Users Colors Palette
- Add a User Fixed Color named MindstormsColor1
- Create a Users Colors Palette
- Red = 186
- Green = 223
- Blue = 225
- Update the style of the CD_SubChoreography container
- Background Color = MindstormsColor1
- ForegroundColor = MindstormsColor1
- Update the style of the CD_SubChoreography container
Add creation tools
- In the Default layer, create a Section to provide a palette for the creation of objects
- In this section, create a Node Creation tool to create instances of Grab
- Id = Grab
- Node Mapping = CD_Grab
- To also allow the users to create a Grab directly into a sub-choreography add
CD_SubChoreography
in the Extra Mappings property - Under the Begin node, create an Operation of type Change Context in order to define on which object the next operations will be executed
- Browse Expression = var:container (this is the current Choreography)
- Add an Operation of type Create Instance
- Reference Name = instructions
- Type Name = mindstorms::Grab
- Copy/Paste and adapt the previous Node Creation tool for the other kinds of Action:
- Release
- GoForward
- After the creation of the instance, add a Set:
- Feature Name = cm
- Value Expression = 50
- After the creation of the instance, add a Set:
- Rotate to Left
- After the creation of the instance, add a Set:
- Feature Name = degrees
- Value Expression = 90
- After the creation of the instance, add a Set:
- Rotate to Right
- Icon Path = Rotate_Right_16px.png (prefixed with its path)
- After the creation of the instance, add a Set:
- Feature Name = degrees
- Value Expression = -90
- To also provide a button in the palette that allows the user to create Choreographies, create a Container Creation tool and proceed like the Node Creation tools created previously
- After the creation of the instance, add a Set:
- Feature Name = name
- Value Expression = NewChoreography
- After the creation of the instance, add a Set:
- Now, you should see some buttons in the palette that create new instructions within the current choreography:
- In the previous Section, create a Double-Click tool to navigate from a Choreography to its own diagram
- Mapping = CD_SubChoreography
- After the Begin, create a Navigation to
Choreography Diagram
- Create if not Existent = true
- Close the diagram and reopen it: now, by double-clicking on the header of the container C1, a dialog box opens to create a new diagram:
If you click on 'Ok', Sirius creates and opens a new diagram:
Installing the solution
The solution of this step is provided in solution4.zip
Warning: If you delete your current design project and load the solution, you should close the sample project and reopen it, in order the new version to be taken into account