Re: [platform-ui-dev] Opera/Mozilla style mouse/pen gesture recognition

[Randy Hudson <hudsonr@xxxxxxxxxx>]

This feature sounds like a waste of
effort.

1) No one is asking for this or really
needs it
2) Eclipse is not a web browser
3) The right mouse button is used for
the context menu 999 times out of 1000.  That means that it is very
likely a gesture will be incorrectly recognized when the user is just trying
to get the context menu to appear.  Also, the results of a gesture
having been interpreted are unexpected and/or subtle.
4) This doesn't work on Motif.  The
context menu must appear on mouse down.
5) This creates either an inconsistancy
or unwanted work for people writing Editors that aren't AbstractText editors.

"Chris McLaren" <Chris_McLaren@xxxxxxx> Sent by: platform-ui-dev-admin@xxxxxxxxxxx 11/27/2002 10:30 AM Please respond to platform-ui-dev

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>From: "Chris McLaren" <Chris_McLaren@xxxxxxx>
>> Technical note: Gestures are recognized when clicking within any
>> AbstractTextEditor. This class is used for editing text and java
files,
>> among others, but you will probably encounter editors for which
this
>> functionality is not currently enabled.
>
>Enabled? Does an editor have to do something special to enable?
>
>Bob 

AbstractTextEditor contains a small amount of code which hooks into the
gesture recognition code. Extending this class would give you this feature
automatically. The feature is only a day old now, over the next week or
to we will try and solidify some of this functionality. Currently, the
gesture code is internal and subject to change. 

Chris.