Month: July 2018

Using the diagram editor and querylist: let’s build a graphical structure editor for MPS

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Today, I am going to lead you through a tutorial of how to build a graphical (slightly UML-like) editor for the structure of an MPS language. The main goal of this tutorial is to show you how to use the diagram editor and querylist plugins that have been developed by Itemis as part of the mbeddr … Read more

A common useful case for ‘can be parent’ constraints in MPS

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Imagine you have a (very contrived) language as shown below (i.e. some root that contains children of an abstract concept named A and Bs and Cs extend A): By default, all As and Bs can be substituted (Ctrl/Cmd+Space) in the nlist of MyRoot: Now, if we want to restrict this, to, let’s say, only Bs, … Read more