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Bug 287737

Summary:	[DND] Click and drag very fast in the ProjectExplorer and ghost icon gets further from the cursor
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Anthony Hunter <ahunter.eclipse>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Platform-SWT-Inbox <platform-swt-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Kevin Barnes <cocoakevin>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	francisu, rnapoles
Version:	3.4.2	Keywords:	triaged
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows Vista
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Anthony Hunter

2009-08-26 15:37:36 EDT

From my test team:

Click and drag very fast in the PE, and the ghost icon gets further from the cursor.

This gets confusing if the user's eyes starts focusing on the ghost icon instead of the cursor when dropping in the target location.

I consider this highly reproducible (80% of quick drags). Here are improved steps.

STEPS:
1. Click on an element outside the project explorer. This seems to improve reproducibility.
2. In the PE, quickly (click and) drag an element quickly.

You can drag it towards the editor, or drag it to elsewhere in the PE. 

The icon of the element you are moving accompanies the cursor, but not right next to it.

The faster you start your click and drag, the further the ghost icon gets.

EXPECTED RESULT:

The dragged icon should appear right next to the cursor.

Comment 1 Francis Upton IV

2009-08-26 15:48:05 EDT

I just tried this many times (Vista, 3.4.2, my RCP app) and could not make it happen.  The ghost thing that was being dragged was the icon and it's text (the whole line), and it always was in the same spot relative to the where I clicked on the cursor.  I tried clicking somewhere else first (in an unrelated tree) and could never make it happen.

In any case, if this is an issue, it's probably in SWT land.

Any other ideas for making this happen?

Comment 2 Anthony Hunter

2009-08-26 15:57:18 EDT

Adding Rodolfo who reported the issue was:
This can become a major annoyance to the customers as it is not clear where the element will end up, at the cursor location or at the location of the ghost element. This is a usability and consumability issue.

Comment 3 Francis Upton IV

2009-08-26 16:00:10 EDT

Well let's see of the SWT folks have seen this, this is not something the ProjectExplorer has any control over.

Comment 4 Bogdan Gheorghe

2009-08-31 10:29:45 EDT

Could you give 3.6 M1 a try and let us know if you still see this? (It seemed OK to me there).

Comment 5 Bogdan Gheorghe

2009-10-13 14:50:39 EDT

Still waiting to see if you are still seeing this in 3.6 M2...

Comment 6 Leo Ufimtsev

2017-08-03 12:29:48 EDT

This is a one-off bulk update. (The last one in the triage migration).

Moving bugs from swt-triaged@eclipse to platform-swt-inbox@eclipse.org and adding "triaged" keyword as per new triage process:
https://wiki.eclipse.org/SWT/Devel/Triage

See Bug 518478 for details.

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Comment 7 Eclipse Genie

2020-03-03 17:19:15 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet. As such, we're closing this bug.

If you have further information on the current state of the bug, please add it and reopen this bug. The information can be, for example, that the problem still occurs, that you still want the feature, that more information is needed, or that the bug is (for whatever reason) no longer relevant.

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