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Bug 311297

Summary:	Tear off views move with the parent window in the Cocoa build
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Mike Schrag <mschrag>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Scott Kovatch <skovatch>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Silenio Quarti <Silenio_Quarti>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	lshanmug, skovatch
Version:	4.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Macintosh
OS:	Mac OS X
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Mike Schrag

2010-05-01 18:08:45 EDT

Build Identifier: 3.6M7

Not sure if this is SWT or Workbench, but if you tear a view off in the cocoa SWT build, it ends up as a child window and moves if i move the workbench window. This might be intentional, but it doesn't seem desirable. I would expect these to behave more like palettes where you can tear it off and it can move independently.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Tear package explorer off into its own window.
2. Move main workbench window
3. Torn-off view window moves, too

Comment 1 Scott Kovatch

2010-06-07 13:51:35 EDT

I agree -- this has always bugged me.

Comment 2 Scott Kovatch

2010-07-13 12:36:51 EDT

This is because parent-child relationships use [NSWindow addChildWindow:], which looks like the right thing to use but isn't as flexible as Carbon's window grouping APIs, and you the Carbon window grouping APIs require the Carbon window manager to be running. That won't be the case in a Cocoa app.

It's a pain to fix, because it means the framework must manage grouping and levels itself.

Comment 3 Eclipse Webmaster

2019-09-06 16:18:21 EDT

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Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2021-11-26 14:47:54 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.

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