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Drag and Drop between 2 opened editors [message #334093] Tue, 20 January 2009 09:36 Go to next message
Laurent Petit is currently offline Laurent PetitFriend
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Hello,

My application writing needs are to enable drag & drop between 2 opened editors.

While there is the possibility to open both editors side by side, it's not a well known feature, and sometimes not desirable.


What I would like is enable the user to work on several open editors, and, from time to time, initiate a drag operation from editor A, hovering the mouse over the tab showing the label of editor B,
which will then be opened to allow the drop operation to be done on editor B.


I don't know :

- if it is feasible at all ?
- if yes, where to plug things/start with ?


Thanks in advance if you can answer to my questions,

--
Laurent PETIT
Re: Drag and Drop between 2 opened editors [message #334109 is a reply to message #334093] Wed, 21 January 2009 10:49 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Laurent Petit is currently offline Laurent PetitFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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Hello,

Does nobody have an idea to help me solve this problem ?

I've currently tried solutions such as adding listeners to the main shell directly, but have not succeeded yet.

Thanks in advance,

--
Laurent

Laurent Petit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My application writing needs are to enable drag & drop between 2 opened
> editors.
>
> While there is the possibility to open both editors side by side, it's
> not a well known feature, and sometimes not desirable.
>
>
> What I would like is enable the user to work on several open editors,
> and, from time to time, initiate a drag operation from editor A,
> hovering the mouse over the tab showing the label of editor B, which
> will then be opened to allow the drop operation to be done on editor B.
>
>
> I don't know :
>
> - if it is feasible at all ?
> - if yes, where to plug things/start with ?
>
>
> Thanks in advance if you can answer to my questions,
>
Re: Drag and Drop between 2 opened editors [message #334155 is a reply to message #334109] Thu, 22 January 2009 12:37 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Laurent Petit is currently offline Laurent PetitFriend
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Registered: July 2009
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This request for enhancement seems to be already there see https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37595 .

Do you have an idea of when it could be scheduled for implementation ?

Do you have an idea of how to make a specific plugin, in the special context of a drag operation initiated from one of the plugin's own views, solve this problem in this case (and not waiting for a
general solving solution including hover over views, hover over perspective buttons, ...) ?

Thanks in advance,

--
Laurent

Laurent Petit wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does nobody have an idea to help me solve this problem ?
>
> I've currently tried solutions such as adding listeners to the main
> shell directly, but have not succeeded yet.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
Re: Drag and Drop between 2 opened editors [message #334158 is a reply to message #334155] Thu, 22 January 2009 15:05 Go to previous messageGo to next message
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Originally posted by: eclipse-news.rizzoweb.com

On 1/22/2009 7:37 AM, Laurent Petit wrote:
> This request for enhancement seems to be already there see
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37595 .
>
> Do you have an idea of when it could be scheduled for implementation ?

Your best bet would be to comment on the bug report, asking for the
current status. I see that it is in the ASSIGNED state which usually
means someone is actively looking at and/or working on it. But in that
bug, the most recent comments are at least 18 months old, so I'd guess
that the team has forgotten about it. If you add a comment, people will
get emailed and perhaps spring into action. Of course, if you can offer
to help implement the feature or part of it, I'm certain you'll get
their attention.

Eric
Re: Drag and Drop between 2 opened editors [message #334172 is a reply to message #334158] Fri, 23 January 2009 08:53 Go to previous message
Laurent Petit is currently offline Laurent PetitFriend
Messages: 35
Registered: July 2009
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Alas, I currently haven't reached the step where I could offer patches to the community, but any soon I feel I can, I certainly will if that can help.

You're right, I'll trigger an event on the bug itself, thanks for the idea,

--
Laurent

Eric Rizzo wrote:
> On 1/22/2009 7:37 AM, Laurent Petit wrote:
>> This request for enhancement seems to be already there see
>> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=37595 .
>>
>> Do you have an idea of when it could be scheduled for implementation ?
>
> Your best bet would be to comment on the bug report, asking for the
> current status. I see that it is in the ASSIGNED state which usually
> means someone is actively looking at and/or working on it. But in that
> bug, the most recent comments are at least 18 months old, so I'd guess
> that the team has forgotten about it. If you add a comment, people will
> get emailed and perhaps spring into action. Of course, if you can offer
> to help implement the feature or part of it, I'm certain you'll get
> their attention.
>
> Eric
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