Eclipse Community Forums: Eclipse Platform » Multiple selections without Shift- and Ctrl-keys?

Help

Home

Home » Eclipse Projects » Eclipse Platform » Multiple selections without Shift- and Ctrl-keys?

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Multiple selections without Shift- and Ctrl-keys? [message #326722]

Mon, 31 March 2008 09:48

Michael Moser

Messages: 914
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

I have a tablet PC and I am occasionally use it with eclipse while on
the go. One things that turned out to be very tedious, is that some
eclipse views, notably those that use a tree view (e.g. Navigator,
Package Explorer, ...) do not allow to select multiple items using a
"rubber band selection", i.e. selecting multiple items by drawing a
frame around them. Selecting multiple items using Shift and Control keys
is extremely complicated and almost unusable with a pen only. I recently
wanted to reorganize a project and the lacking possibility to select
more than a single file at a time made me give up (or rather delay it
until I was back at my desktop with a full keyboard)... :-(

Is there a way to enable rubber band selections in eclipse (or maybe
SWT)? It would be really cool, if eclipse could provide such an option!
Or some alternative mean that allows to conveniently select multiple
items in a list or tree view, e.g. like the leading tiny checkboxes that
Vista's Explorer offers (under Tools => Folder Options => Views => "use
checkboxes to select items"). That's ideal for pen only operation!

Michael

Report message to a moderator

Re: Multiple selections without Shift- and Ctrl-keys? [message #326738 is a reply to message #326722]

Mon, 31 March 2008 13:02

Paul Webster

Messages: 6859
Registered: July 2009
Location: Ottawa

Senior Member

Michael Moser wrote:
> I have a tablet PC and I am occasionally use it with eclipse while on
> the go. One things that turned out to be very tedious, is that some
> eclipse views, notably those that use a tree view (e.g. Navigator,
> Package Explorer, ...) do not allow to select multiple items using a
> "rubber band selection", i.e. selecting multiple items by drawing a
> frame around them. Selecting multiple items using Shift and Control keys
> is extremely complicated and almost unusable with a pen only. I recently
> wanted to reorganize a project and the lacking possibility to select
> more than a single file at a time made me give up (or rather delay it
> until I was back at my desktop with a full keyboard)... :-(
>
> Is there a way to enable rubber band selections in eclipse (or maybe
> SWT)? It would be really cool, if eclipse could provide such an option!
> Or some alternative mean that allows to conveniently select multiple
> items in a list or tree view, e.g. like the leading tiny checkboxes that
> Vista's Explorer offers (under Tools => Folder Options => Views => "use
> checkboxes to select items"). That's ideal for pen only operation!
>

I've redirected to SWT for comment.

PW

--
Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menus_Extension_Mapping
http://help.eclipse.org/help33/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse. platform.doc.isv/guide/workbench.htm

Paul Webster
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_Command_Framework
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Command_Core_Expressions
http://wiki.eclipse.org/Menu_Contributions

Report message to a moderator

Previous Topic:	Periodic workspace save error
Next Topic:	FireHandlerChanged doesn't work from non-GUI thread

Goto Forum:

-=] Back to Top [=-

[ Syndicate this forum (XML) ] [

]

Current Time: Thu Dec 26 21:39:52 GMT 2024

.:: Contact :: Home ::.

Breadcrumbs

Sign up to our Newsletter