RE: [mylar-dev] temporary expand with keyboard

["Mik Kersten" <beatmik@xxxxxxx>]

Regarding mouse click modifiers, Shift and Ctrl can't be used because
they're used to indicate multiple selections.  So the only standard modifier
available seems to be Alt.

Regarding keyboard click modifiers, Right Arrow means "expand" in a tree
viewer, so that seems most appropriate, and makes for very quick navigation
through a filtered hierarchy when using the "down" arrow key.  

Hitting right arrow on a node has the exact same behavior as Alt+Clicking
it: all children are shown, and the uninteresting ones should be gray.  Once
an uninteresting child is selected the others go away.  But there is
usability issue here that may be the source of your problem: if you don't
find an uninteresting node to select and select one that's already
interesting, then the temporarily unfiltered nodes won't go away.  This has
been bugging me too so I opened a report:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=123330

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Eugene Kuleshov
> Sent: January 10, 2006 11:56 AM
> To: Mylar developer discussions
> Subject: Re: [mylar-dev] temporary expand with keyboard
> 
> Hi Mik,
> 
>    How about adding an option that would disable this feature?
> 
>    Maybe it is a side effect of another bug (e.g. Mylar is collapsing
> some nodes in Package Explorer when using keyboard shortcut C-A-S-Down
> to lover interest on some other nodes, but I can't record a
> reproduceable test case), but when I am expanding collapsed nodes
> using Right key, Mylar is adding whole bunch of crap into the active
> context and it is quite annoying.
> 
>    I also wonder if you can use Shift instead of Alt for mouse click
> or right key modifier or even better allow to configure it similar to
> how hovers are configured for Java editors.
> 
>    regards,
>    Eugene
> 
> 
> Mik Kersten wrote:
> > The report is: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=112233
> >
> > I'm still unclear on how to resolve it so I turned it into a discussion
> > item, which is probably what made it hard to find.  Right now this works
> by
> > hitting right-arrow without the Alt modifier pressed.  Alt+Right Arrow
> won't
> > work because having the Alt key causes messages to be sent to the window
> > (menus) not the view.  It's the opposite of the Linux problem cited on
> that
> > report (where Alt *clicks* go to the window, not the view).  We're about
> to
> > set up a Linux test box so we'll see if we can come up with a reasonable
> > modifier combination for clicking, but there's nothing obvious.  In the
> > meantime, could you post whether or not the current no-modifier Right
> Arrow
> > key press works for you?  Personally I've been using that almost as much
> as
> > Alt+click...
> >
> > Mik
> >
> >
> >>-----Original Message-----
> >>From: mylar-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylar-dev-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> >>On Behalf Of Eugene Kuleshov
> >>Sent: January 6, 2006 9:05 PM
> >>To: Mylar developer discussions
> >>Subject: [mylar-dev] temporary expand with keyboard
> >>
> >>Mik,
> >>
> >>   I can't find a bug report for temporary mylar filter expand with
> >>keyboard. Can you remind me what is the status of this issue and if you
> >>are going to add Alt modifier to make it similar as Alt-MouseClick
> >>
> >>   thanks
> >>
> >>   Eugene
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