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| Re: When will the Visual Editor support the copy or paste operation of component [message #63356 is a reply to message #63333] |
Thu, 30 September 2004 02:35  |
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Originally posted by: myersj.nospam.gmail.com
Calvin Schut wrote:
> exquisitus wrote:
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>>When will the Visual Editor support the copy or paste operation of
>>components?
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> I'm also interested in this issue. I think that feature would make working
> with VE a lot easier.
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> Is this feature in the plans yet?
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This item's on the list of possible features to target for version 1.5
of the VE. The semantics of cut/copy/paste of components within the VE
is quite complicated - the development team has had multiple discussions
on the topic with no good results.
For example... when you copy and paste a component, what do you expect
to happen? Interacting with the design view usually involves dropping
onto the design with a cursor loaded with the component you've selected
from the palette, or selecting and moving components around in the
design. How would paste work? Would you press Ctrl-V and the cursor
would be loaded with the copied component, then click to drop it
someplace? When you copy and paste a component, what happens to the
code? Does a new component of the same type get created where you
click, with all of the property settings of the copied component? What
about events and other user code associated with the original component?
If a copy only copies the property settings and doesn't touch user
code, what happens when you cut a component? If you copy multiple
components, how do you indicate the feedback/choose to drop if you're
pasting into a layout such as Gridbag?
There are a whole lot of issues to resolve for this task, so it'll take
a lot of thought, design and discussions.
- Jeff
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| Re: When will the Visual Editor support the copy or paste operation of component [message #600176 is a reply to message #63333] |
Thu, 30 September 2004 02:35 |
 Jeff Myers
Messages: 396
Registered: July 2009 |
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Calvin Schut wrote:
> exquisitus wrote:
>
>
>>When will the Visual Editor support the copy or paste operation of
>>components?
>
>
>
> I'm also interested in this issue. I think that feature would make working
> with VE a lot easier.
>
> Is this feature in the plans yet?
>
This item's on the list of possible features to target for version 1.5
of the VE. The semantics of cut/copy/paste of components within the VE
is quite complicated - the development team has had multiple discussions
on the topic with no good results.
For example... when you copy and paste a component, what do you expect
to happen? Interacting with the design view usually involves dropping
onto the design with a cursor loaded with the component you've selected
from the palette, or selecting and moving components around in the
design. How would paste work? Would you press Ctrl-V and the cursor
would be loaded with the copied component, then click to drop it
someplace? When you copy and paste a component, what happens to the
code? Does a new component of the same type get created where you
click, with all of the property settings of the copied component? What
about events and other user code associated with the original component?
If a copy only copies the property settings and doesn't touch user
code, what happens when you cut a component? If you copy multiple
components, how do you indicate the feedback/choose to drop if you're
pasting into a layout such as Gridbag?
There are a whole lot of issues to resolve for this task, so it'll take
a lot of thought, design and discussions.
- Jeff
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