[platform-dev] Re: Screen concept in RCP applications

[Dimas Danurwenda]

Is it similar to layering, grouping, and visibility in, say, Photoshop? I'm looking for that too, and currently I'm exploring the Visual Library with no clue.

On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:09 AM, Javier Ortiz <address-removed ([email]address-removed[/email])> wrote:

[Milo]

Hi,
don't you think TopComponentGroup?
It has open() and close() methods.


------------ Původní zpráva ------------
Od: Javier Ortiz <address-removed>
Předmět: [platform-dev] Screen concept in RCP applications
Datum: 11.4.2012 23:10:20
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Is there some kind of screen concept in an RCP application? Screen being a
group of components displayed at the same time I can work with via an API.

I was planning of defining some type of class holding a list of components
and hide or show them accordingly to some methods. Any work done around
this that someone can share experiences on?

Thanks in advance!

[Geertjan Wielenga]

Or use roles.

http://platform.netbeans.org/whatsnew/71.html

Gj

On 04/12/2012 09:56 AM, Miloš Šilhánek wrote:

[javydreamercsw]

Roles sounds to be the answer. I'll dive into that. Thanks!

[Gregg Wonderly]

On 4/11/2012 9:44 PM, Dimas Danurwenda wrote:

[Javier Ortiz]

That works perfectly to displaying the buttons and selecting from there. What I'm having issues figuring out is how to display one by default. I had that done making the components opening at start up but I would like to do that based on the role.

Based on the javadoc: http://bits.netbeans.org/dev/javadoc/org-openide-windows/org/openide/windows/WindowManager.html#setRole(java.lang.String)

The roles need to be defined in the Windows2/Roles folder. So I did that change but still they don't show. Debugging I see the role being set. I was expecting to see a layer entry being generated for the rols I created but found none during project build so I think that's part of the issue. How can I register the roles? Hopefully when they are registered it'll work.

Here's my role definition:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE filesystem PUBLIC "-//NetBeans//DTD Filesystem 1.2//EN" "http://www.netbeans.org/dtds/filesystem-1_2.dtd">
<filesystem>
<folder name = "Windows2">
<folder name = "Roles">
<file name = "game_view">
<attr name="position" intvalue="20"/>
<attr name="actionListener" newvalue="dreamer.card.game.gui.GameViewer"/>
</file>
<file name = "deck_view">
<attr name="position" intvalue="30"/>
<attr name="actionListener" newvalue="dreamer.card.game.gui.DeckViewer"/>
</file>
</folder>
</folder>
</filesystem>

And the layer generation entries:

Note: generated layer entry: Actions/Window/dreamer-card-game-gui-CollectionWindowTopComponent.instance
Note: generated layer entry: Actions/Window/dreamer-card-game-gui-DeckViewer.instance
Note: generated layer entry: Actions/Window/dreamer-card-game-gui-GameViewer.instance
Note: generated layer entry: Menu/Window/dreamer-card-game-gui-CardViewerTopComponent.shadow
Note: generated layer entry: Menu/Window/dreamer-card-game-gui-CollectionWindowTopComponent.shadow
Note: generated layer entry: Menu/Window/dreamer-card-game-gui-TableViewTopComponent.shadow
Note: generated layer entry: Windows2/Components/CardViewerTopComponent.settings
Note: generated layer entry: Windows2/Components/CollectionWindowTopComponent.settings
Note: generated layer entry: Windows2/Components/TableViewTopComponent.settings
Note: generated layer entry: Windows2/Modes/editor/TableViewTopComponent.wstcref
Note: generated layer entry: Windows2/Modes/explorer/CardViewerTopComponent.wstcref
Note: generated layer entry: Windows2/Modes/rightSlidingSide/CollectionWindowTopComponent.wstcref
Note: generated layer entry: xml/entities/dreamer_card_game_gui/CardViewer
Note: generated layer entry: xml/entities/dreamer_card_game_gui/CollectionWindow
Note: generated layer entry: xml/entities/dreamer_card_game_gui/TableView
Note: generated layer entry: xml/lookups/dreamer_card_game_gui/CardViewer.instance
Note: generated layer entry: xml/lookups/dreamer_card_game_gui/CollectionWindow.instance
Note: generated layer entry: xml/lookups/dreamer_card_game_gui/TableView.instance
Note: generated layer entry: xml/memory/dreamer/card/game/gui/CardViewerTopComponent
Note: generated layer entry: xml/memory/dreamer/card/game/gui/CollectionWindowTopComponent
Note: generated layer entry: xml/memory/dreamer/card/game/gui/TableViewTopComponent

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Subject: [platform-dev] Re: Screen concept in RCP applications

On 04/12/2012 01:18 PM, Javier Ortiz wrote: