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"If the meaning of the X attribute isn't clear, there really should be more of a description... [message #1709859]

Thu, 01 October 2015 14:14

Rafal Filipiuk

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Registered: September 2015

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Hi,

I'm an inexperienced GUI/front-end dev. I've been playing around with the graphics side of things and I noticed that every time I look at the doc for methods offered by, say, gaService or Style, the doc either says Sets the value of the 'X' attribute or Returns the value of the 'X' attribute. If the meaning of the 'X' attribute isn't clear, there really should be more a description here...

A lot of the attributes are self-explanatory; such as height, width, X, Y, font, color, etc. But some are more arcane to me: what is 'Filled', or 'Angle', or 'Proportional', or 'Active'? Those are just off the top of my head but how does everyone know what these mean? Is there a reference manual for every property? I'm guessing that a lot of these properties are common knowledge among front-end devs, but is there anything I can consult instead of being met with a useless comment such as the one in this thread's title?

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Re: "If the meaning of the X attribute isn't clear, there really should be more of a descriptio [message #1709895 is a reply to message #1709859]

Thu, 01 October 2015 19:16

Marek Jagielski

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As for me, I just test them what they do.

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Re: "If the meaning of the X attribute isn't clear, there really should be more of a descriptio [message #1709941 is a reply to message #1709895]

Fri, 02 October 2015 07:34

Michael Wenz

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Rafal, Marek,

perfectly right, there should be documentation on the flags (and the rest) of the Graphiti model. There is a rather old bugzilla still open for this: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=381178. Unfortunatly nobody has found the time so far to work on it.

Michael

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Re: "If the meaning of the X attribute isn't clear, there really should be more of a descriptio [message #1709992 is a reply to message #1709941]

Fri, 02 October 2015 14:12

Rafal Filipiuk

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@Marek Testing is not that straightforward, is it? For example, a pictogramElement such as an Anchor has 'Referenced Graphics Algorithm' as a property. How would I find out what that is for through testing? I'm not an experienced dev, so I'm genuinely curious if there is a way.

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