[news.eclipse.tools.emf] Re: Searchable Combobox for Features

[Tom Schindl <tom.schindl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=210176

Tom

Dirk Hoffmann schrieb:
> Hi,
> 
> we're working with the generated .edit and .editor plug-ins which we
> enhance step-by-step to get the functionality we need.
> 
> Our users are faced with quite large menus when they attempt to specify
> reference features in the properties view. Then they need to scroll up
> and down in order to find the right target item for the reference.
> 
> We would like to provide them with a search feature, maybe as a filter
> that reduces the number of presented items as they type in some
> substring of the desired item.
> 
> The default cell editor for references is implemented through the
> ExtendedComboBoxCellEditor class I believe.
> 
> If we created our own CellEditor where would we have to hook that in so
> that it gets called when the user click on the reference feature?
> 
> Does somebody know about a SearchableComboBoxCellEditor (or whatever it
> maybe called)?
> 
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dirk