How to hide outer bounded parent rectangle in GEF figure

Question

I am trying to create a circle or an ellipse in GEF framework. We are setting constraints/bounds as a rectangle within which the circle/ellipse sits. My problem is that I am not able to hide/suppress outer Rectangle when I do drag drop or I just click on the circle. Is there any way we can remove this outer Rectangle ? any tip idea would help. thanks

Answer 1

This rectangle is created by the NonResizableEditPolicy (or ResizableEditPolicy if your figure is resizable). This policy is added automatically to children of some layout policies, for example children of ConstrainedLayoutEditPolicy. What you need to do is find which layout policy you are using in your container, and override it to use a different edit policy to decorate the children of the container. This can be done by overriding the NonResizableEditPolicy (or ResizableEditPolicy) and then modify how this policy provides feedback when the Figure is selected, clicked on, etc.