Bug 40270

Summary: "Link with editor" feature doesn't track activation
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Jared Burns <jared_burns>
Component: UIAssignee: Knut Radloff <knut_radloff>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: erich_gamma, n.a.edgar
Version: 2.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: All   
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Description Jared Burns CLA 2003-07-16 17:16:51 EDT 
Build 20030716

The "Link with editor" feature seems to only track editor focus, not activation. 
The workbench supports just bringing editors to the top without giving them 
focus. The link with editor feature should update for this case.
Comment 1 Erich Gamma CLA 2003-07-17 09:55:07 EDT 
JDT is consistent with the workbench and the link with editor is activated on 
a partActivated event. The current behaviour is OK by me, but moving to 
Platform UI for comments.
Comment 2 Knut Radloff CLA 2003-07-21 14:52:13 EDT 
I think this is a bug if you consider the search result use case mentioned in 
bug 39059.
Adding Nick to cc list to see if he agrees.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 39059 ***
Comment 3 Nick Edgar CLA 2003-07-28 15:36:36 EDT 
Intuitively I think it should sync with partBroughtToTop, not partActivated.
There may be some reason for the current behaviour, but I don't remember it.  
It would lead to more frequent changing of selection in the navigation views, 
but it would be more consistent.
Would have to handle the case where the view itself brings a different editor 
to front and ensure there are no cycles.

I suggest we try it.
Comment 4 Knut Radloff CLA 2003-07-29 12:29:24 EDT 
The only possible cycle I see would be if a view changes editors to one other 
than the activated one when the view selection is set (e.g., editor A 
activated, selects element A, view opens editor B on selection change). I don't 
think this is a realistic scenario though.