Re: [tracecompass-dev] Opening of trace analysis view when in experiment

[Bernd Hufmann <bernd.hufmann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you'd like to see if it looks like in practice checkout following patch:

https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/70655/

Bernd

On 04/14/2016 09:24 AM, Bernd Hufmann wrote:
> Hello
>
> Right now, trace analysis views can be opened by double-clicking on 
> the view under the analysis tree node in the project explorer when a 
> trace is open. (I'm not discussing the standard way of opening views 
> in Eclipse using the Window -> Show views menu). However, if a trace 
> is part of an experiment and the user wants to open a view relevant to 
> trace that is part of the experiment, the user first has to open the 
> trace, go the the trace node under the Traces directory of the Project 
> Explorer, find the view and double-click on it. When doing that the 
> active trace is switched from the experiment to the single trace. If 
> the user wants to see the experiment, the user needs to select the 
> experiment again.
>
> I propose the following change to the Project Explorer tree, so that 
> the available trace analyses are visible from the experiment subtree 
> when the experiment is open. Here how it would look like:
>
> Tracing
>   |----- Experiments
>              |-------- MyExp
>                             |----- trace1
>                                         |------ trace1-analysis1
>                                                        |---------- 
> trace1-anaysis1-view1
>                                                        |---------- 
> trace1-anaysis1-view2
>                                                        |---------- ....
>                                         |------ trace1-analysis2
>                                                        |---------- 
> trace1-anaysis2-view1
>                                                        |---------- ....
>                                         |---------- ....
>                             |----- ...
>   |---- Traces
>             |----- ...
>
>
> Note 1: When double-clicking a view under the Experiments sub-tree, 
> the view will open and the experiment will be applied in the view and. 
> The corresponding trace won't be opened separately for that.
>
> Note 2: The sub-tree and behavior under the Traces directory won't be 
> changed.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers
> Bernd
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