RE: [e4-dev] Drop Adapters in Resource Viewers

[yves.yang@xxxxxxxxxxx]

I'm affaid it's a part of "Declarative UI". For now, it isn't supported by
XWT. I have created a bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=267191

Best regards
Yves YANG
> So the question is,
>
> would it make sense for "Modeled UI" to also model the
> behavior of drag and drop?
>
> Or are we just modeling static things such as views, stacks,
> layouts, perspectives, windows?
>
> Or would the modeled UI bring us to a point where we can
> use a common parent class to hook drag and drop into?
>
> Thanks,
> --
> Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical Staff, Wind River
> Target Management Project Lead, DSDP PMC Member
> http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:e4-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Serge Beauchamp
>> Sent: Donnerstag, 05. März 2009 12:24
>> To: E4 Project developer mailing list
>> Subject: [e4-dev] Drop Adapters in Resource Viewers
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> With the e4 resource improvements effort, changes have been
>> made to the
>> way dropping resources is handled in the navigator view.
>> The user can now choose to automatically create groups and linked
>> resources simply by dragging files in the resource viewer (see a
>> demonstration of this feature at
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej-diQ9ClV0).
>>
>> Unfortunately, since those UI changes required code change in the
>> org.eclipse.ui.ide plugin, and every resource navigator (the Package
>> Explorer, Project Explorer, the CDT CView, etc...) use their own
>> implementation that does not share the org.eclipse.ui.ide
>> NavigatorDropAdapter.
>>
>> Ideally, those views will be refactored into using all a common
>> component that is full featured and easily maintainable.
>> Since only the
>> org.eclipse.ui.ide plugin is part of the e4 resource plugin, I'm not
>> sure what's the best way to go about that, or how to
>> coordinate such an
>> effort.
>>
>> Also I have been told that maybe the "Modelled UI" may have
>> some idea on
>> the way to do with this general feature.
>>
>> Any comments would be appreciated, thanks,
>>
>> Serge Beauchamp
>> Software Engineer
>> Freescale Semiconductor
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