Re: [udig-devel] action tools on dropdown together with modal tools

["andrea antonello" <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Jody,

> We have a bit of a mixed metaphore here guys; the modal tools are supposed
> act like a giant set of radio buttons (the highlander principle of their can
> be only one). The action tools are fire and forget - you do not even need to
> tool extension point to pull that one off (it is just a short hand for
> making an action and contributing it to the toolbar and/or menu).
>
> Right now the categories are displayed in a drop down list thanks to some
> amazing hackery from Jesse - as such you are free to mess with the code that
> processes the extension and see if you can get actions into the mix - but I
> fear that it would be a mess. Action tools have their own keyboard short cut
> for example; tool categories also have a keyboard short cut that allows you
> to cycle through all the modal tools in the category...


Yeah, I was assuming that this was the logic.


> So where to go from here?
> - Create your own view that gathers up all the tools you want (modal and
> action etc...) - this was our plan to make the UI scalable. You can see a
> couple examples of this already in the UI where the tools associated with a
> view are available on the view toolbar.

That is not feasible for me, since the action tool I have, is the one
that should open the view.

> - explore the use of the "palette" tool that the Draw2d crowd put together.
> Near as I can tell it is a custom SWT control that has a similar model to
> what we put together. If we can switch to that it will give Jesse less code
> to maintain.

What do you mean with the palette tool of draw2d?

Andrea

>
> Jody
>
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 3:18 AM, andrea antonello
> <andrea.antonello@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> I have a set of tools that logically should be in the same place.
>> 2 of them are modal and one is action.
>> If I put them on the toolbar through the extention point option:
>> onToolbar = true,
>> and with the same category, 2 of them are together in a dropdown , and
>> the action is all alone in another toolbar.
>>
>> Is there a way to get them together or do I have to delegate an
>> ActionSet to do that?
>>
>> Andrea
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