Bug 22563

Summary:

[Perspectives] View layout is tricky at edges

Product:

[Eclipse Project] Platform

Reporter:

Jon Skeet <skeet>

Component:

Assignee:

Stefan Xenos <sxenos>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

CC:

bogofilter+eclipse.org, eclipse, jpshack, sxenos

Version:

2.0

Keywords:

investigate

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Windows 2000

Whiteboard:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
Fix for this defect	none

Description Jon Skeet

2002-08-20 04:39:41 EDT

I've just had to "redo" a perspective the way I want it (for reasonable 
reasons) and I've run into the same problem I always have. I wish to 
have the search/console/tasks bar along the whole bottom width of 
Eclipse. I should (I think) be able to do this by dragging a view over 
the status bar and getting an "up" arrow to say I want it to be above 
the status bar. Unfortunately, I can't do that - I have to put 
everything vertically so that *everything* is the full width, get the 
tasks/console/search in the right place and then reorganise the rest.

Have I missed something, or is this genuinely missing functionality?

(The same goes for the top, left and right as well - getting anything 
that takes up a whole side is basically a pain.)

Comment 1 Simon Arsenault

2002-08-23 10:56:55 EDT

This would help with the usuability of the product.

Comment 2 Stefan Xenos

2004-02-07 21:29:07 EST

*** Bug 50910 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Stefan Xenos

2004-02-11 15:52:16 EST

Created attachment 7802 [details]
Fix for this defect

This includes a patch for the org.eclipse.ui.workbench project and a patch for
the Geometry class in org.eclipse.jface.util.

Due to a bug in the "create patch" feature, the workbench patch is missing one
change to PageLayout.java. I have also included the full source (my change is a
new function called swtConstantToLayoutPosition at the end of the file -- just
paste that into PageLayout.java and you should be good).

I have also included the full source for TrimDropTarget.java (where most of the
change happened), just in case CVS gets out of sync between now and when the
patch gets committed.

Comment 4 Stefan Xenos

2004-02-12 05:02:59 EST

Kim, can you commit this?

Comment 5 Douglas Pollock

2004-02-13 18:26:19 EST

Committed patch.

Comment 6 Stefan Xenos

2004-02-16 14:06:27 EST

Great. Flagging as fixed.