Comment 1 Dejan Glozic 2006-12-20 15:17:13 EST

Created attachment 55992 [details]
A proposal for message manager

Comment 2 Dejan Glozic 2006-12-20 15:33:38 EST

Created attachment 55993 [details]
The initial implementation (matches 3.3M4-level of JFace).

Comment 3 Dejan Glozic 2006-12-20 15:34:50 EST

The attached patch provides the baseline implementation of the proposal. 
It also fixes a bug in ControlDecoration whereby size for the multi-line descriptions was correctly computed but only first line was actually painted (wrong SWT method).

Comment 4 Dejan Glozic 2006-12-20 15:39:07 EST

Created attachment 55994 [details]
A patch for org.eclipse.ui.forms.examples project with an example.

Comment 5 Dejan Glozic 2006-12-20 15:41:52 EST

How to play with the provided implementation:

1) Check out org.eclipse.jface from HEAD
2) Apply the JFace patch
3) Check out org.eclipse.ui.forms from HEAD
4) Apply the example patch
5) Launch another Eclipse
6) Select 'Window>Customize Perspective>Commands>Eclipse Forms Examples' action set.
7) Select 'Form Editors>Simple Form Editor' from the main menu
8) Switch to the 'Message Manager' tab

Comment 6 Dejan Glozic 2006-12-20 18:44:29 EST

Created attachment 56010 [details]
Patch for org.eclipse.ui.forms

Forgot to add the necessary required patch for org.eclipse.ui.forms.

Comment 7 Dejan Glozic 2006-12-20 18:45:16 EST

In the steps above, you will need to apply examples patch to org.eclipse.ui.forms.example project, and the newly attached forms patch to org.eclipse.ui.forms project. Sorry for the confusion.

Comment 8 Susan McCourt 2007-02-13 13:25:33 EST

I will look this over for M6.

Comment 9 Dejan Glozic 2007-02-13 14:15:08 EST

For all practical purposes, I have deferred this proposal for 3.3 and implemented the proposal in the more limited context of the UI Forms (see http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/platform-ua/proposals/forms/enhancements-3.3/index.html). The long-term strategy should still be to have a general approach that works in similar contexts.

Comment 10 Susan McCourt 2007-02-13 17:47:13 EST

ok, I'll remove a milestone and we can take this up in a more general form later.

Comment 11 Susan McCourt 2009-07-09 17:19:07 EDT

As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009

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