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How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155221]

Fri, 06 January 2006 15:08

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: pingpinganan.gmail.com

I cannot drag & drop an element, e.g., a variable or a statement or any
piece of code fragment around. Both Help and Google don't help me. I
have to continue using cut & paste which is much less convenient. Anybody
can help. Many thanks in advance!

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155228 is a reply to message #155221]

Fri, 06 January 2006 17:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: alex_blewitt.yahoo.com

Use another editor, like Word for Windows. You only find drag-to-move in lower quality editors.

Alex.

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155234 is a reply to message #155228]

Fri, 06 January 2006 18:21

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: erickson_d.yahoo.removethis.com

Eclipse uses the drag-to-move gesture many places; text is an exception.
Drag-and-drop as well as copy and paste commands need to be added to
WTP's outline view, to function like JDT's class outline view. Lack of
these features is an irritating inconsistency in WTP.

Alex Blewitt wrote:
> Use another editor, like Word for Windows. You only find drag-to-move in lower quality editors.
>
> Alex.

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155285 is a reply to message #155228]

Sun, 08 January 2006 00:08

Eclipse User

Alex Blewitt wrote:

> Use another editor, like Word for Windows. You only find drag-to-move in lower quality editors.
>
> Alex.

The problem is not the high quality deliverables but rather the low
quality expectations? Wtf is that? Opposite day or open source
community support at its best?

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155307 is a reply to message #155221]

Sun, 08 January 2006 08:50

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: thisisnot.mymail.com

Ping wrote:
> I cannot drag & drop an element, e.g., a variable or a statement or any
> piece of code fragment around. Both Help and Google don't help me. I
> have to continue using cut & paste which is much less convenient.
> Anybody can help. Many thanks in advance!
>
I believe the the SWT.DragDetect that was added with 3.2 M4 might
provide that capability.
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.2M4- 200512151506/eclipse-news-M4.html

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155328 is a reply to message #155285]

Sun, 08 January 2006 11:03

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: alex_blewitt.yahoo.com

I suspect that my inital response didn't read well; upon re-reading, I'd tend to agree. Dragging and dropping of selected text isn't available in any of the released Eclipse builds (though it may be available in the future, I don't know). My response was more an indication that there isn't a magic setting to turn it on in Eclipse 3.1, because that functionality doesn't exist.

There are less-powerful editors that do have that functionaity if that's needed.

Alex.

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155341 is a reply to message #155234]

Sun, 08 January 2006 15:01

Eclipse User

On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:21:30 -0500, Doug Erickson <erickson_d@yahoo.remo=
vethis.com> wrote:

> Drag-and-drop as well as copy
> and paste commands need to be added to WTP's outline view, to function=
like JDT's class outline view.

We do have something of a drag-to-move function in our xml outline views=
(I only qualify with 'something of' because the resulting souce format =
is not as expected).

But ... is there a bug open for WTP's lack of copy/paste in outline veiw=
?
I could not find one (and will confess, was not aware of this inconsiste=
nccy).

Thnaks,

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155769 is a reply to message #155328]

Tue, 10 January 2006 17:56

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: pingpinganan.gmail.com

Alex Blewitt wrote:

> I suspect that my inital response didn't read well; upon re-reading, I'd
tend to agree. Dragging and dropping of selected text isn't available in any
of the released Eclipse builds (though it may be available in the future, I
don't know). My response was more an indication that there isn't a magic
setting to turn it on in Eclipse 3.1, because that functionality doesn't exist.

> There are less-powerful editors that do have that functionaity if that's
needed.

> Alex.

Alex,

Thanks, this is exactly answer I expect to read and is much more friendly
than the previous answer which made me think I came to a wrong place. If
there is no setting available to turn drag-drop on in Eclipse, I will not
bother to dig it out anymore rather than just wait for new release.

Thanks,

Ping

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155777 is a reply to message #155307]

Tue, 10 January 2006 18:05

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: pingpinganan.gmail.com

Srgjan Srepfler wrote:

> Ping wrote:
>> I cannot drag & drop an element, e.g., a variable or a statement or any
>> piece of code fragment around. Both Help and Google don't help me. I
>> have to continue using cut & paste which is much less convenient.
>> Anybody can help. Many thanks in advance!
>>
> I believe the the SWT.DragDetect that was added with 3.2 M4 might
> provide that capability.
>
http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.2M4- 200512151506/eclipse-news-M4.htmlThanks
for the input. But missing drag & drop feature is probably a bug. Please see
the following link.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11624

Ping

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #155951 is a reply to message #155777]

Wed, 11 January 2006 14:55

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: thisisnot.mymail.com

Ping wrote:
> Srgjan Srepfler wrote:
>
>> Ping wrote:
>>
>>> I cannot drag & drop an element, e.g., a variable or a statement or
>>> any piece of code fragment around. Both Help and Google don't help
>>> me. I have to continue using cut & paste which is much less
>>> convenient. Anybody can help. Many thanks in advance!
>>>
>> I believe the the SWT.DragDetect that was added with 3.2 M4 might
>> provide that capability.
>>
> http://download.eclipse.org/eclipse/downloads/drops/S-3.2M4- 200512151506/eclipse-news-M4.htmlThanks
> for the input. But missing drag & drop feature is probably a bug.
> Please see the following link.
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=11624
>
> Ping
>

A missing feature is not a bug if it never existed in the first place,
SWT guys need to get some slack as they need some time to wrap all
possible controls features.

Re: How to make drag-drop available for elements in Eclipse? [message #156448 is a reply to message #155341]

Fri, 13 January 2006 16:16

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: amywu.us.DELETETHISPART.ibm.com

In the XML outline view, you can drag and drop elements to essentially cut
and paste.
You can also ctrl+drag and drop elements to essentially copy and paste.

"David Williams" <david_williams@us.ibm.com> wrote in message
news:op.s22slfy9ac05ss@dmw2t23.raleigh.ibm.com...
On Fri, 06 Jan 2006 18:21:30 -0500, Doug Erickson
<erickson_d@yahoo.removethis.com> wrote:

> Drag-and-drop as well as copy
> and paste commands need to be added to WTP's outline view, to function
like JDT's class outline view.

We do have something of a drag-to-move function in our xml outline views (I
only qualify with 'something of' because the resulting souce format is not
as expected).

But ... is there a bug open for WTP's lack of copy/paste in outline veiw?
I could not find one (and will confess, was not aware of this
inconsistenccy).

Thnaks,

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