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How to fix position of Export icon in Eclipse view [message #1707358]

Fri, 04 September 2015 04:17

Ian Wark

Messages: 4
Registered: September 2015

Junior Member

It seems that the css or positioning logic in the Eclipse client is different to how browsers implement the same. The width of our custom BIRT report is long and causes a scroll bar to appear below the report. When you scroll across, the Export icon moves to the left and then disappears off the left of the display when you continue scrolling to the right. This seems to be the default behavior of other out-of-the-box BIRT reports too.

In comparison, the same report when displayed in Firefox uses positioning, such that the Export icon stays at the right of the page no matter you scroll to the right or not. Internet Explorer is the same.

As an experiment, we added the -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla option in Eclipse 4.2 and indeed Firefox does open in an external window when you open the report. But unfortunately the positioning here was not like the other Firefox; it was the same as Eclipse.

Is there some css you can apply to a report to get the same absolute positioning of the Export icon as Firefox or IE in the Eclipse client? How might we achieve that?

We are using the default Eclipse bundled with Rational Team Concert 4.0.2, so we have to use BIRT 2.6.2.

Image1 --> Eclipse client before scroll
Image2 --> Eclipse client after scrolling to the right
Image3 --> Comparison with Firefox. This is the behavior we are looking for in Eclipse. Here the Export icon is fixed to the right and not visible, but appears when you scroll to the right.

Please disregard the language of the attached screen captures. We look forward to any help you can provide.

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Re: How to fix position of Export icon in Eclipse view [message #1707635 is a reply to message #1707358]

Tue, 08 September 2015 06:45

prue IIBO

Messages: 11
Registered: August 2015

Junior Member

please do could you tell me how you choose to run your report BIRT with Internet Explorer or Firefox?
I try to change my execution nagiteur but I can not. Currently report but c is exéutent with internet explorer but I do not know how BIRT chooses to use Internet Explorer.
Thank you!

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Re: How to fix position of Export icon in Eclipse view [message #1707737 is a reply to message #1707635]

Wed, 09 September 2015 01:23

Ian Wark

Messages: 4
Registered: September 2015

Junior Member

I think that it is Eclipse which decides which browser is used to run the report. I think Eclipse uses IE on Windows by default to display in the internal browser view. To change that to Firefox you can add -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.DefaultType=mozilla in the eclipse.ini. Otherwise, the only setting I know is in Eclipse preferences under General > Web Browser. You can choose the radio button to choose an external browser or to use the internal browser. http://help.eclipse.org/mars/index.jsp?topic=%2Forg.eclipse.platform.doc.user%2Freference%2Fref-42.htm

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