Bug 5104

Summary:	[Perspectives] EC: API to undock a view during intial layout
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Simon Arsenault <simon_arsenault>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Kevin Haaland <Kevin_Haaland>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	investigate
Version:	2.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows 2000
Whiteboard:

Description Simon Arsenault

2001-10-19 09:44:54 EDT

From: "Ilya Rozenberg" <none@rational.com>
Newsgroups: eclipse.tools
Subject: Re: Can I undock a ViewPart from the code?
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 16:23:36 -0400

You are right about user confusion . I guess my question is how to define
perspective with a ViewPart undocked by default.

"David Springgay" <david_springgay@oti.com> wrote in message
news:9qem31$gdh$1@rogue.oti.com...
> Ilya Rozenberg wrote:
>
> > Can I undock a ViewPart from the code?
>
> There is no API for this feature.  Just out of curiosity, why do you want
> to do this?  It may confuse the user when views move around autonomously
> without their input.
>
> Dave

Comment 1 Simon Arsenault

2002-01-24 17:34:55 EST

It would be a useful feature addition to allow the initial perspective layout 
factory to specify a view as a fast view or detached window. The problem is 
detach window is not supported on all platforms...so what would happen there? 
They become fast views?

Comment 2 Randy Giffen

2002-08-08 16:44:13 EDT

Reopen for investigation

Comment 3 Eduardo Pereira

2002-09-03 15:18:36 EDT

Workbench UI does not support detached views anymore in any platform.

Not a valid PR anymore.