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Hello, I would like to suggest the following enhancement (I'll try to be clear :-( ) It could be good to add a new dialog box mode based uppon the statefull modal dialog box, ie the dialog box with next/previous choices ... The proposal is to render the dialog box like a perspective with states (next/previous/ok/cancel). Example : When we open the state perspective, this one is blocked in the current state. We can't change the current perspective unless we choose the cancel or ok button... In certain case, we would have only next/previous button... I think such a state perspective should be useful for some kind of applications Xavier
This is just a wizard dialog which you can subclass and make non modal if you wish.
It is not a wizard dialog because it is not a new window which is opened, but for instance a view or an editor in a perspective. The goal is to force the user to go through steps before reaching a given goal...when it is done, the user can navigate as he wants... An example : imagine a multieditor with 3 tabbed panes... The idea is to enable the user to go from the pane 1 to the pane 2 only if he filled some info into the pane 1... once done, he has to fill other data to be able to go to pane3... Once everything is done, he can navigate as he wants in each pane...but if he modifies for instance a sensible data into the pane 1 , the pane 2 must be coherent to be able to access again to pane3... Is it clear? It is a mechanism I used to use in a personal opensource project (jsp pages), and that I've seen and used into several microsoft products (for instance Money) regards Xavier
This message is part of a mass update on bugs that have been reviewed for several releases, but not fixed. The bug is legitimate, but not a priority. Marking P5. Patches would be entertained.
As per http://wiki.eclipse.org/Platform_UI/Bug_Triage_Change_2009
I am taking this one.
No i'm not. Sorry for the spam. I thought it was about the modality of dialogs but it is something else.
