eclipse-rcpeclipse-gef

Create miniature outline view from GEF editor


I am trying to display a miniature view of the graph contained in my GEF editor in the eclipse outline view, but in the outline it says "An outline is not available". This is the ContentOutlinePage I created:

import org.eclipse.draw2d.LightweightSystem;
import org.eclipse.draw2d.Viewport;
import org.eclipse.draw2d.parts.ScrollableThumbnail;
import org.eclipse.gef.GraphicalViewer;
import org.eclipse.gef.LayerConstants;
import org.eclipse.gef.editparts.ScalableRootEditPart;
import org.eclipse.gef.ui.parts.ContentOutlinePage;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.custom.SashForm;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.DisposeEvent;
import org.eclipse.swt.events.DisposeListener;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Canvas;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Composite;

public class OverviewContentPage extends ContentOutlinePage {

  private ScrollableThumbnail thumbnail;
  private DisposeListener disposeListener;
  private GraphicalViewer viewer;

  public OverviewContentPage(GraphicalViewer viewer) {
    super(viewer);
    this.viewer = viewer;
  }

  @Override
  public void createControl(Composite parent) {
    Canvas canvas = new Canvas(new SashForm(parent, SWT.VERTICAL), SWT.BORDER);
    LightweightSystem lws = new LightweightSystem(canvas);
    thumbnail = new ScrollableThumbnail(
    (Viewport) ((ScalableRootEditPart) viewer.getRootEditPart()).getFigure());
    thumbnail.setSource(((ScalableRootEditPart) viewer.getRootEditPart()).getLayer(LayerConstants.PRINTABLE_LAYERS));
    lws.setContents(thumbnail);

    disposeListener = new DisposeListener() {
      @Override
      public void widgetDisposed(DisposeEvent e) {
         if (thumbnail != null) {
             thumbnail.deactivate();
              thumbnail = null;
         }
      }
    };

    viewer.getControl().addDisposeListener(disposeListener);
  }

  @Override
  public void dispose() {
    if(viewer != null) {
      if (viewer.getControl() != null && !viewer.getControl().isDisposed())
        viewer.getControl().removeDisposeListener(disposeListener);
      super.dispose();
    }
  }
}

In my GEF editor, I added the following lines:

@Override
  public Object getAdapter(Class type) {
    ...
    if(type == IContentOutlinePage.class) {
      return new OverviewContentPage(getGraphicalViewer());
    }
    return super.getAdapter(type);
  }

Am I missing something?


Solution

  • Overriding the method getControl() solves the problem:

    private SashForm sash;
    
    ...
    
    @Override
    public Control getControl() {
        return sash;
    }
    

    where sash is the SashForm passed to the LightweightSystem in createControl().