Running the mindmap sample
Simply begin and try to execute the raw mindmap sample without generating nor changing anything.
Installation
Install the modeling Eclipse Ganymede's bundle here: http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
eclipse-modeling-ganymede-incubation-win32.zip
eclipse-modeling-ganymede-SR1-incubation-win32.zip
Checkout the GMF examples from the cvs repository:
:pserver:anonymous@dev.eclipse.org:/cvsroot/modeling
HEAD/org.eclipse.gmf.examples
or download from here: http://f.pfister.free.fr/archives/gmf_examples.zip
Install the 3 following examples:
File/import/existing project into workspace (check: copy project into workspace)
org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap
org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.edit
org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.diagram
Running the example
Right click on org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.diagram, run as Eclipse Application. This will run the org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.diagram plugin (graphical model editor), using org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap (containing the metamodel) and org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap.edit (provide property editing capabilities)
File/new/project/general project
File/new/Examples/Mindmap Diagram
Window/show view/properties
Create a new model
Compose a new model with 2 resources, 5 topics, one of them composed of 2 threads, each composed of several threadItems. Link topics, threads, threadItems to resources.
Model source code: http://f.pfister.free.fr/archives/myfirst.mindmap
The model diagram
The model tree
The model source
Looking at the Metamodel
Let's try to understand how the metamodel is the models's model.
Go back to the org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap project, open the metamodel:
Open org.eclipse.gmf.examples.mindmap/model/mindmap.ecore_diagram
or Initialize Ecore Diagram File (right click on mindmap.ecore), and layout a clean diagram as below:
The Mindmap Metamodel
The Mindmap Metamodel as a tree
The Mindmap Metamodel as an ecore xml file
Tasks:
- Understand the model conformity to the metamodel
- Propose to check the model's consistency (Topic and it's first thread belongs to the same resource ?)
- Propose to extend the model's semantic (visualize links between threadItems and resources ?)
Model source code
http://f.pfister.free.fr/archives/myfirst.mindmap
checkout from my SVN
http://gmfhowto.googlecode.com/svn/branches/gmf-examples-1.0/
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