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Build ID: M20060629-1905 Steps To Reproduce: 1. Click Help > Help Contents to open the help in a separate window. 2. Click a book title to expand its contents, for example, Java Development User Guide. 3. Click the book title to collapse its contents. RESULT: The book does not collapse. More information: I am a documentation writer for an IBM software product that is based on the Eclipse platform. I am reporting this bug as a response to a user comment from a usability study we conducted last January. Although this bug is not severe, this particular user became annoyed when he could not collapse the books in the TOC and said that this behavior is not what he expected. Thank you for looking into this.
In 3.3 this has changed - the user will see [+] and [-] nodes, just like regular trees, and can use those to expand and collapse. Empty topic nodes will also have topics generated for them - for now it's just the title and list of direct child topics. So topics will never expand/collapse by clicking on the title. It always just shows the topic. I think this should clear up confusion about expanding/collapsing. Do you agree?
This is one of several examples of how the Eclipse 3.2 help tree did not act like an SWT tree. Eclipse 3.3 allows books to be closed, we added an expander to the book level of the tree. A number of table of contents bugs were fixed in Eclipse 3.3, Bug 37018 is the closest to this one. Closing as duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 37018 ***
