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Selection dialogs initially empty [message #551671]

Mon, 09 August 2010 06:47

Dirk Hoffmann

Messages: 163
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

since Galileo at least under Windows many (if not all) selection dialogs
do not present any choices before you type in the first character in the
search text field.

Is this the same in e4? If yes can you get back the pre-Ganymede behavior?

For example if you add Dependencies to a plug-in project using the
Manifest editor after clicking the Add button you are presented with an
empty list of plug-ins. As soon as you type in the first character of
the plug-ins's id e.g. 'o' the list is built up with all the plug-ins
whose names start with 'o'.

Is this a kind of performance optimization? Is it a feature or a bug?
Its in Galileo as well as in Helios so I do not believe it is a bug. I
do not like this behaviour and would like to switch it back to the old
fashion.

Does somebody know how to achieve that?

Thanks,
Dirk

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Re: Selection dialogs initially empty [message #551711 is a reply to message #551671]

Mon, 09 August 2010 09:23

Thomas Schindl

Messages: 6651
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Eclipse 4.0 uses the 3.x codebase so you need to convince PDE, ... to
make the behavior configureable.

Tom

Am 09.08.10 08:47, schrieb Dirk Hoffmann:
> Hi,
>
> since Galileo at least under Windows many (if not all) selection dialogs
> do not present any choices before you type in the first character in the
> search text field.
>
> Is this the same in e4? If yes can you get back the pre-Ganymede behavior?
>
> For example if you add Dependencies to a plug-in project using the
> Manifest editor after clicking the Add button you are presented with an
> empty list of plug-ins. As soon as you type in the first character of
> the plug-ins's id e.g. 'o' the list is built up with all the plug-ins
> whose names start with 'o'.
>
> Is this a kind of performance optimization? Is it a feature or a bug?
> Its in Galileo as well as in Helios so I do not believe it is a bug. I
> do not like this behaviour and would like to switch it back to the old
> fashion.
>
> Does somebody know how to achieve that?
>
> Thanks,
> Dirk

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Re: Selection dialogs initially empty [message #551761 is a reply to message #551711]

Mon, 09 August 2010 13:29

Dirk Hoffmann

Messages: 163
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

Hi,

thanks for the pointer. I'm asking the PDE folks.

Dirk

Am 09.08.2010 11:23, schrieb Tom Schindl:
> Eclipse 4.0 uses the 3.x codebase so you need to convince PDE, ... to
> make the behavior configureable.
>
> Tom
>
> Am 09.08.10 08:47, schrieb Dirk Hoffmann:
>> Hi,
>>
>> since Galileo at least under Windows many (if not all) selection dialogs
>> do not present any choices before you type in the first character in the
>> search text field.
>>
>> Is this the same in e4? If yes can you get back the pre-Ganymede behavior?
>>
>> For example if you add Dependencies to a plug-in project using the
>> Manifest editor after clicking the Add button you are presented with an
>> empty list of plug-ins. As soon as you type in the first character of
>> the plug-ins's id e.g. 'o' the list is built up with all the plug-ins
>> whose names start with 'o'.
>>
>> Is this a kind of performance optimization? Is it a feature or a bug?
>> Its in Galileo as well as in Helios so I do not believe it is a bug. I
>> do not like this behaviour and would like to switch it back to the old
>> fashion.
>>
>> Does somebody know how to achieve that?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Dirk
>

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