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Created attachment 287131 [details] screenshot Version: 2021-06 (4.20) Build id: I20210611-1600 The attached dialog does not support select and cut to facilitate use in diverse situations, not least of which is bug reporting without opaque screenshots. Please support a conventional select and copy. (This is a specific example of a generic problem that select and copy is too often not available within Eclipse but SWT seem reluctant to accept that there is a generic problem. Each instance is pushed back as bad UI programming rather than inadequate UI tooling.)
@Ed, You mean to say other dialogs allow to select and cut the text?
I'm fairly sure some do. IIRC when I raised this as a general issue quite a fgew years o now, SWT batted it back as fully supported by SWT; just needs every Dialog programmer to get the magic configuration right. Bottom line. Whenever text is displayed, it may be useful to select and cut/copy to re-use that text without the hazards of retyping. e.g. a) in order to contribute searchable text to a bug report without obfuscating the text by embedding as a png b) in order to search Bugzilla/forum/... for any other occurrences of the phenomenon c) in order to search source code to facilitate debugging the dialog. d) in order to search a namespace for a name matching a typo ...
@Sravan, Do you know about any setting to make the details selectable?
(In reply to Sarika Sinha from comment #3) > @Sravan, > Do you know about any setting to make the details selectable? Currently the Message is displayed as a swt Label in org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.IconAndMessageDialog This needs to be converted to a swt Text which is read-only, so that it can be copied. So moving this bug to Platform UI.
(In reply to Kalyan Prasad Tatavarthi from comment #4) > (In reply to Sarika Sinha from comment #3) > > @Sravan, > > Do you know about any setting to make the details selectable? > > Currently the Message is displayed as a swt Label in > org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.IconAndMessageDialog > > This needs to be converted to a swt Text which is read-only, so that it can > be copied. > > So moving this bug to Platform UI. Currently the Message is displayed as a swt Label widget in org.eclipse.jface.dialogs.IconAndMessageDialog This needs to be changed to an swt Text(read-only) widget, so that it can be copied. So moving this bug to Platform UI.
(In reply to Ed Willink from comment #2) > I'm fairly sure some do. e.g. When The Breakpoints View has an error I can select the following: E:\Tools\Eclipse\4.10\plugins\org.eclipse.emf.ecore_2.16.0.v20181124-0637.jar is not on its project's build path > IIRC when I raised this as a general issue quite a > fgew years o now, SWT batted it back as fully supported by SWT Bug 241188 13 years ago.
