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I think purely for social reasons folks are more inclined to write things by hand than to generate them, especially people from North America where Modeling is kind of frowned upon for no apparent good reason. |
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I don't know any (but I'm also not deeply familiar with that part of PDE). |
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From memory: The e4 model editor has much more functionality than the generated EMF editor, e.g. wizard integration, extra validation and a nicer UI and better UX. It is basically a tailored editor vs a generic generated one. Stuff like:
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Currently the E4WorkbenchModelEditor and all of its embedded editors in org.eclipse.e4.tools.emf.ui.internal.common.component (over 40 different classes) are hand coded and manually maintained.
On the surface it seems like it would be possible to derive all of the visual editing facilities from the underlying Ecore model (e.g. generating the possible tree items from the EClasses and the text boxes from EString attributes and so on).
Are there any (maybe historic) reasons why the editor was not designed this way?
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