Bug 232368

Summary:	[hovering] Should start enriching on mouseDown and forward event to rich hover
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Markus Keller <markus.kell.r>
Component:	Text	Assignee:	Platform-Text-Inbox <platform-text-inbox>
Status:	ASSIGNED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P4	CC:	daniel_megert
Version:	3.4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:	fix candidate

Description Markus Keller

2008-05-15 14:03:25 EDT

We should start enriching hovers on mouseDown and forward the mouseDown event to the enriched hover. This would allow the user to start selecting text in a simple hover. Currently, the selection in the simple hover is lost, because enriching only starts on mouseUp, and the rich hover then comes up without a selection.

Comment 1 Markus Keller

2010-07-12 08:39:19 EDT

I quickly looked into this, and it turned out to be quite complicated.

The problem is that we would have to make sure that *all* events are properly forwarded to the enriched hover. The initial mouseDown is easy, but the following mouseMoves and even more importantly, the mouseUp can occur either in the original browser, in the new browser, or even in another control. In all 3 cases, the enriched browser should see the same events, such that it can e.g. properly select a range of text, and such that a very quick mouseDown/Up on a link really activates the link in the enriched browser.

Comment 2 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:15:38 EDT

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.