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Re: [platform-help-dev] Active Help - Strange Behaviour
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Steve has opened a bug 21004
http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=21004 , which was the right
thing to do. If anybody is interested in the problem, please add yourserlf
to the CC list.
Konrad Kolosowski
Eclipse Help System
Steve
Woolley/UK/IBM@IBMGB To: platform-help-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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platform-help-dev-admin@e Subject: [platform-help-dev] Active Help - Strange Behaviour
clipse.org
06/26/2002 08:46 AM
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platform-help-dev
Greetings,
Earlier this morning, I got active help working within my plugin.
I used the example given in the Platform Plug-in Developer Guide to launch
the Eclipse Workbench Preferences dialog. When I clicked on my active help
link to open the Preferences dialog for the first time, it worked
perfectly; the Preferences dialog window came to the front (as I would
expect it to), with the main Eclipse Workbench window behind the
Preferences dialog, and the Help Perspective behind the Eclipse Workbench
window.
However, when I returned to the same page sometime later (without shutting
down Eclipse in between), I clicked on the active help link again (hoping
to see the Preferences dialog once more) but nothing seemed to happen. It
was only when I selected the "Resource - Eclipse Platform" tab on my
Windows application bar that I discovered that the Preferences dialog had
opened, but in the background (hidden behind my Help perspective), and
certainly not obvious to the user.
This is unfortunate because when I emulated a frustrated user and started
clicking frantically on the active help link in an attempt to get the
Preferences dialog to open, I discovered that my Eclipse Workbench had
frozen - leaving the Help perspective functioning perfectly (apart from the
odd behaviour of the active help link). This left me with the only one
option; I had to resort to the three fingered salute to kill Eclipse from
the Windows Task Manager.
Has anybody else encountered this problem? Can anything be done to fix
it/work around it?
I'm running the GM 3 driver on Windows NT4 Workstation.
Thanks in advance...
Steve
________________________________________________________________________________
Stephen Woolley - User Assistance Architect
WebSphere MQ Integrator User Technologies
Mail Point 095, IBM United Kingdom Laboratories, Hursley Park,
Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 2JN, United Kingdom
Steve Woolley/UK/IBM@IBMGB swoolley@xxxxxxxxxx
Tel/Fax: +44 (0)1962 818428 Internal: 248428
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