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Re: [eclipse-dev] Opera/Mozilla style mouse/pen gesture recognition in Eclipse
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Also what about chording when using a two button mouse on GTK or Motif? In
the list sent by Max I see that some gestures involve holding the left
mouse button down and then clicking on the right mouse button - on GTK and
Motif this will be reported as a middle mouse button click. I think the
gestures in Opera and Mozilla must differ from platform to platform and
this needs to be considered.
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What happens on Linux/Motif, where you have to hold the right mouse button
down to pop a menu up?
"Chris McLaren" <Chris_McLaren@xxxxxxx>
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11/26/02 03:06 PM
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Subject: [eclipse-dev] Opera/Mozilla style mouse/pen gesture
recognition in Eclipse
As an experiment, I've added to Eclipse support for recognizing mouse
gestures, a feature of Opera and Mozilla fame. This feature will appear in
the next build.
To make a gesture, click and hold the right mouse button in an editor,
then
move the mouse according to the following table. Release the button to
complete the gesture and execute the action. An unrecognized gesture (like
a simple right-click) will default to opening the editor's right-click
popup menu. The gesture recognizer should be reasonably forgiving of 'poor
penmanship'.
RIGHT Go forward in the history
LEFT Go backward in the history
UP Save the current file
UP then LEFT Save all files
DOWN Close the current file
DOWN then LEFT Close all files
RIGHT then LEFT Cut the selected text
RIGHT then UP Copy the selected text
RIGHT then DOWN Paste the selected text
These nine gestures were picked out of my hat for this experiment, but
should response for this feature be positive, I will add support for
plugins to contribute mouse gestures as well as a preference page for
users
to 'train' Eclipse to recognize new gestures and assign them to specific
actions (the same set of actions available to key binding customization).
Technical note: Gestures are recognized when clicking within any
AbstractTextEditor. This class is used for editing text and java files,
among others, but you will probably encounter editors for which this
functionality is not currently enabled.
Please comment on this feature, as it was not on the original 2.1 plan.
Thanks,
Chris.
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