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RE: [e4-dev] Drop Adapters in Resource Viewers
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Hi John, Francis,
We just discussed this in the e4 resources call, and agreed
that we'd like to have the CNF bundles in the e4 / resources repository for
working on them, especially in order to make the CDT interoperable with the e4
changes.
Unfortunately I don't know excactly what bundles the CNF
needs... could you move forward identifying those bundles and cloning them over
into e4?
Thanks
a lot!
Cheers,
--
Martin Oberhuber, Senior Member of Technical
Staff, Wind River
Target Management Project
Lead, DSDP PMC Member
The original effort to solve this
problem of navigator-like views is the common navigator framework. The CNF is
the replacement for the Navigator view already, and could possibly replace
some of the other navigator-like views with a little effort. I would suggest
minimally adding your DND support in the CNF, since ideally the Navigator will
cease to exist even in the 3.x stream (see [1]). We can add the CNF bundles to
the e4 repository if needed, it may even give Francis a useful place to work
on more ambitious CNF changes that would be disruptive in the 3.x
stream.
It's possible the
declarative UI can help with this, but I'm not optimistic it can be solved
generically. Having worked on drag and drop in the past, I know every view
likes to stream-line DND behaviour in a way that makes sense in their
particular view. The appropriate behaviour when an IFile is dropped into a
view can vary greatly depending on the kind of view and the particular drop
position in the view. Maybe there is a way to model this but I'll defer to the
UI-model folks to answer in more detail.
John
[1] -
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/platform-ui-dev/msg04053.html
Serge Beauchamp
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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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