Re: [mylar-dev] bugzilla editor in new dev build

[Eugene Kuleshov <eu@xxxxxxxx>]

Robert Elves wrote:
> If you are are seeing an editable text area in the Existing Bug Editor 
> (not the new bug editor), this is a bug and should be reported.
 I swore I saw it in bugzilla editor opened from query, but can't 
reproduce it now.
 This is in the dev build Mik published last night.
> I tried a number of  ways to implement a dynamic resizing of the text 
> areas in the bug editor. Eventually I had to scrap the idea though 
> because the form layout just wasn't working well enough and was 
> leaving lots of wasted space at the bottom of each text area. 
 By the way, what widget used in description area to show the text?
 I wonder if it would be possible to change its text right in-place by 
hooking up some keyboard actions. Though it is still unclear if it wold 
resize in the layout after that...
> One other idea I had was to implement the entire comment area as a 
> single text viewer and using something similar to code folding 
> mechanism to separate each comment.  I haven't tried this approach yet.
 That is probably way to go. Though it is still unclear how can you 
edit description in-place leaving comments read-only or add new comments.
> Regarding sash with scrollable form, I may have tried that layout for 
> the Task Activity Report a while back, but I'm not certain. Again the 
> trick here would likely be the dynamic text area interaction with the 
> resizing of the sash...but it may be possible.
> Perhaps these dynamic text are / scrolled form layout issues are 
> something that SWT Designer could help with?
 SWT designed can help you to sketch out the layout, but as Brock 
pointed out at some point you would need to hook up some custom event 
handlers to relayout things in the form on resizes.
 I am not even sure if form toolkit intended to support this kind of stuff.

 Basically what I am suggesting is to use sash area in the middle of 
scrollable composite area to expand size of the entire composite... I 
tried to prototype this at some point but gave up.

 regards,
 Eugene