Jun 02
Today I finally went through the CNF tutorials by Michael. It’s a famous online one, located at
http://scribbledideas.blogspot.com/2006/07/pdf-versions-now-available.html
My task is to customize all menu items in our customized navigator. There are generally 2 ways to contribute menus in Common Navigator Framework:
1. Contribute via platform popup menu extensions (viewerContribution and objectContribution).
2. Via ActionProvider inside CNF.
I wish to remove all contributions in the additions section (mainly by objectContribution) and Import/Export actions (via ActionProvider).
To achieve the first aim, set the navigator viewer subnode <popupMnu allowsPlatformContributions=”false” >…</popupMenu>.
To achieve the second goal, remove the following insertionPoint from <popupMenu />:
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<insertionPoint
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name="group.port"
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separator="true">
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</insertionPoint>
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Feb 02
The reason why I like HTML most, is because its flexibility. Even rookies can master it quickly. In eclipse there is form UI, in which FormText supports parsing HTML-like tags to render user interface.
Thought it doesn’t support free HTML style, it is still a big advantage over traditional Java UI building. We can easily format a paragraph of stylish text with bullet list, image, and links. How many efforts do you need in traditional Java way?
However, bear in mind that it doesn’t support all tags.The limitation rule is “FormText control is not, nor will it ever be, a web browser“.
The supported tags are list below. They MUST be used in the required order.
1. <form> as the root tag.
2. <form> tag can contains <p> and <li>.
3. <p> and <li> can contains text, <b>, <span>, <img> and <a> tags.
Attributes:
<p vspace=”true/false“>
<img src=”img_key” />
<a href=”href“>link text</a>
<li> supports more attributes as explained below:
- style - can be “text”, “bullet” and “image” (default is “bullet”)
- value - not used for “bullet”; if style is “text”, the value will be rendered instead in place of a bullet; if style is “image”, value represents a key in the image table of an image to be rendered in place of a bullet
- vspace - the same as for the ‘p’ tag.
- indent - the number of pixels to indent text
- bindent - the number of pixels to indent the bullet (this number is independent from ‘indent’ - be careful not to overlap them)
Reference:
http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-Forms/article.html
