Textual Modelling Embedded into Graphical Modelling

Abstract. Today's graphical modelling languages, despite using symbols and connections, represent large model parts as structured text. We benefit from sophistic text editors, when we use programming languages, but we neglect the same technology, when we edit the textual parts of graphical models. Recent advances in generative engineering of textual model editors allow to create such sophisticated text editors more efficiently. Therefore, textual modelling becomes practical for the textual parts of graphical models. In this paper, we present the necessary techniques to embed generated EMF-based textual model editors into graphical editors created with GMF and tree-based editors generated with EMF.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: ECMDAFA
• Authors: Markus Scheidgen
• Keywords: ECMDAFA 2008, Hardware, Text Editors, Textual Model Editors, Textual Parts