Question

I have an ECore model I exploit to automatically generate the model source and JFace edit package. I am trying to develop an alternative view for contents of that model, basically a graph view based on JFreeChart. I have managed to create a JFreeChart based view plugin. Now I need to link the view with the model. How can I do that? I would like to edit the model with the TreeBased editor and see the effects of such editing in the graph view. Is that possible?

thank you

Answer 1

Ok I have managed to do that following the Zoltán suggestions. Anyway I admit I would have preferred a more structured answer, and that is why I am answering my own question with a brief summary of the solution.

basically the idea is that a view plugin implements the ViewPart interface. Because of this it can actually invoke the following methods

getSite().getWorkbenchWindow().getSelectionService()

in order to get the workbench selection service. You can therefore invoke the SelectionService method

addSelectionListener(ISelectionListener listener)

passing as parameter your own ISelectionListener which can be the same ViewPart you are implementing. You just have to implement the ISelectionListener interface and thus provide an implementation of the selectionChanged method

public void selectionChanged(IWorkbenchPart sourcepart, ISelection selection)