Hmm,

You seem to want to work directly at FAMIX level. This means that you just have an object, which happens to be a FAMIXClass instance, and want to describe it with Magritte.

I thought that I don't need to describe FAMIX models with magritte, because it is autogenerated from <MSEProperty: #someSelector type: #SomeClass>. So I must describe it myself?

What would you expect to get for declaredType?

Well the descriptions of it... so in a single form I would have all the descriptions. If I do it with my own descriptions... e.g. FAMIXBehavioralEntity>>descriptionDeclaredType <magritteDescription> ^ MAToOneRelationDescription new selectorAccessor: #declaredType; label: 'Declared Type'; yourself Then I at least get buttons for it (I didn't manage to achieve this with the autogenerated descriptions) ​ However I would still like the option to specify whether I want a new window to show up or let it be embedded in a single form. I managed to track down something like MAInternalEditorMorph which maybe should do what I want but if I apply it it has no effect... so maybe it's broken or I don't know how to use it. Thanks, Peter On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:

Hi,

Metanool offers you a way to define new properties and edit those. Thus, it works at the FM3 level (which is a meta-model of FAMIX).

You seem to want to work directly at FAMIX level. This means that you just have an object, which happens to be a FAMIXClass instance, and want to describe it with Magritte.

For example, for adding a Name property, you can add this method:

FAMIXClass>>descriptionName <magritteDescription> ^ MAStringDescription new accessor: #name; label: 'Name'; yourself

And you get:

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What would you expect to get for declaredType?

Cheers, Doru

On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Peter Uhnák <i.uhnak@gmail.com> wrote:

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Hi,

I would like to build custom magritte view for a FAMIX model, however it seems that Fame/Metanool are somehow interfering with it..

Imagine a simple model (a class with an attribute): ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ cls := FAMIXClass new name: 'Something'.

(attr := FAMIXAttribute new) name: 'myAttribute'; declaredType: (FAMIXClass new name: 'OtherThing').

cls addAttribute: attr. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

now I can open the magritte description ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ attr mooseDescription asMagritteDescription asMagritteMorph openInWindow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ However this is a meta description, which I don't want...

So second option was to build it manually; I extract descriptions that I am interested in.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ container := MAContainer new addAll: ({ attr mooseDescription at: 'name'. attr mooseDescription at: 'declaredType'. } collect: #asMagritteDescription).

(container asMorphOn: attr) openInWindow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

However the problem with this is, that the declaredType is presented as TextField, which is not very useful.

So I'm kind of lost...

basically what I want to do is to have a MAContainer that contains both the Attribute's name and #declaredType's name.

Is this possible?

Thanks, Peter

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