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Build Identifier: If you drag a node beyond the edge of the editor frame the canvas grows accordingly. However, the view isn't scrolled to keep the node visible - which is the more common behavior in this circumstance. Another side effect is that you're limited in how far you can drag the node - by the Windows desktop tracking of the mouse - rather than the typically unlimited movability (or limited by the max canvas size, if there is one). Reproducible: Always
In the future, we should compare GEF semantics on this to semantics in other graph editing tools, but deferring for now.
Bulk deferral of diagram-related items to the 0.5 release.
OK, I've spent a couple of hours investigating the behaviors of other GEF based editors (Graphiti based editors, sample GEF editors etc). They all exhibit the same behavior when dragging nodes outside the diagram's visible area, which is, they don't scroll the canvas accordingly. I've also investigated a possible fix for this but after 2 hours, I didn't find any. Since this seems to be inherent with GEF based editors, let's not spend more time on this unless there is a customer outcry for a remedy.
This seems like a legitimate usability issue even if it is an issue that affects all GEF editors. I don't want to just let this go. Have you tried discussing this with GEF team?
I've opened this GEF bug https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=380586 Let's see what the GEF team say about this.
