[news.eclipse.tools.gef] Re: EditPart can't receive REQ_OPEN and REQ_SEL

["vince" <fiustudent@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

With your help, I finally figured it out it's because 
AbstractTreeEditpart.getDragTracker simply return null while actually a 
SelectEditPartTracker is needed.

Thank you very much!
Miaohua Xu

"Randy Hudson" <none@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> "vince" <fiustudent@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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>> Thank you for your reply!
>>
>> I am guessing the outline TreeViewer has handled such request so that it 
>> doesn't dispatch them. Could you please point out a direction for me? 
>> Say, shall I look into the source code of treeViewer? or something else?
>
> You should be looking at the editpart's getDragTrackerMethod, and at 
> SelectEditPartTracker, which is the tool that sends the open request. 
> You'll note that AbstractTreeEditPart does return a drag tracker, so this 
> request never gets sent.
>
> Please open a bug for a special drag tracker just for treeitems which only 
> sends these requests, but doesn't perform any selection
>>
>> Additional, what do you mean by saying "pick one place/thread to discuss 
>> this problem"? I am kind of new to Eclipse.
>
> I am referring to the different places on this newsgroup that you are 
> asking about the same problem
>