Developing a DSL Graphical Notation - Eclipse Modeling Project: A Domain-Specific Language Toolkit - page 210

And these are the additions we made to the messages.properties file:

AppearancePreferencePage_archetypeColorGroup_label=Archetype colors
AppearancePreferencePage_pinkArchetypeColor_label=
Pinks (moment-interval, mi-detail):
AppearancePreferencePage_yellowArchetypeColor_label=Yellows (role):
AppearancePreferencePage_greenArchetypeColor_label=
Greens (party, place, thing):
AppearancePreferencePage_blueArchetypeColor_label=Blues (description):
AppearancePreferencePage_grayArchetypeColor_label=Plug-in point:

At this point, we can launch our diagram and see the properties in action,
although they have no effect on the diagram because they're not incorporated
into our EditPart code yet. Again, using black-and-white images does little to
illustrate the use of color modeling, as seen in Figure 4-46.

Figure 4-46 Archetype color preferences

Turning finally to our EditPart code, we use MomentIntervalEditPart
as our testbed. Adding the following code makes our preferences-based color