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Bug 118159

Summary:	[Viewers] selection provider should enable copy action in workbench menu
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	benson margulies <bimargulies>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Boris Bokowski <bokowski>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	Keywords:	helpwanted
Version:	3.1.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:

Description benson margulies

2005-11-27 14:31:26 EST

When my view sets a selection provider with something like getSite().setSelectionProvider(listViewer), my expectation was that this would automatically enable the 'read' commands in the global edit menu. Given a selection provider, the framework could easily detect the availability of the necessary capabilities. Why not always allow copy of the labels available from the jface viewer framework, or at least provide some easily reused glue to package up the necessary actions.

Comment 1 Kim Horne

2005-11-29 11:02:45 EST

Not sure what you're asking for here.  Passing on to the commands dude for clarification.

Comment 2 benson margulies

2005-11-29 11:07:31 EST

The general principle here is that whenever there is text on display, one should be able to use edit/copy on it. As things are, any given view has to go through a number of specialized steps to plug into the edit menu. It seems to me that this could/should/might be a service of the platform.

Comment 3 Douglas Pollock

2005-11-29 12:31:38 EST

Yeah, what do mean by "the 'read' commands"?

Comment 4 benson margulies

2005-11-29 12:32:59 EST

COPY and SELECT_ALL as opposed to CUT and PASTE.

Comment 5 Douglas Pollock

2005-11-29 12:33:35 EST

Okay, moving to [Viewers] as I think that covers selection providers.

Comment 6 Boris Bokowski

2007-06-26 14:11:31 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 121782 ***