Re: [ui-best-practices-working-group] Whats the best practice for "Link

[Tod Creasey <Tod_Creasey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This sounds like something the Common Navigator could support - the 
Resource Navigator has been replaced by it in at least the Resource 
Perspective 3.3. I think this is a feature request you should enter to 
Platform UI rather than a best practise for us to discuss here.

Tod




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[ui-best-practices-working-group] Whats the best practice for "Link with 
editor" if the editor contains multiple resources?







I'm trying to find out what the general consensus for a UI design concern 
I'm currently facing. I have an editor that displays things that are also 
displayed in the various navigators (common, resource, package 
explorer,etc) like web pages, files, etc. If I enable "Link with editor" 
on the navigator, when I click in the editor, the IResource that the 
editor is currently editing is shown in the Navigator. This is not exactly 
what I want. I would rather have the selected resource within the editor 
synchronize with the same display of that resource in the navigator. 

I was able to get this function by manually listening to selection changes 
in my editor, and on selection changes to set the same selection to the 
various resource navigation views (Really, all ShowInTarget views) 

Then someone suggested to me that I was doing something that was not 
"consistent" with the way that base Eclipse behaves. Thus, I'm posing this 
question to this mailing list to get some thoughts on this issue: 

Would it be annoying or useful to have the "Link with editor" option 
automatically synchronize with the selection of the editor, instead of 
just the editors underlying resource? 

A more convervative approach for this synchronization function is 
something that already is found in various places inside Eclipse. You can 
use the "Show in..." context menu instead. This displays a contet menu 
labeled: "Show In..." -> followed by a sub menu of the views that are 
ShowInTarget compatible. 

I see this as being an issue to all editors that also show Resources. 
(UML, Web, Database, etc)


Thanks,

Mindaugas Idzelis
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