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Bug 315370

Summary:	[Move to EMF Facet][Facet Editor] Focus on properties view
Product:	[Modeling] MoDisco	Reporter:	Nicolas Guyomar <nicolas.guyomar>
Component:	Infrastructure	Assignee:	Project Inbox <modisco.web-inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5	CC:	gdupe, nicolas.bros
Version:	0.8.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Nicolas Guyomar

2010-06-02 06:10:52 EDT

Hi,

When I create a FacetSet, I would found very handy that each time I create a new child (Right Click -> New Child -> Facet/Facet Att/Facet Ref etc ..) the focus is set to the properties view, ready to type the name of the child. 

It would be like creating a new file, you could start typing the name as soon as you create a facet.

Regards

Nicolas

Comment 1 Nicolas Bros

2010-06-02 06:28:11 EDT

I would find it disturbing to focus a different view as a result of clicking "New Child" (no other Eclipse editor does this as far as I know).

Since when you create a child, it becomes focused in the editor, I think that if you could open/focus the properties view by pressing <Enter> for example, that would be just as convenient  (since you're going to use the keyboard to type the name anyway).

What do you think?

Comment 2 Nicolas Guyomar

2010-06-02 08:00:57 EDT

You are right for the fact that no other Eclipse editor does that.

Concerning your proposed solution, how is the user going to be aware of the shortcut <Enter> ? What I was thinking was to stick to the usual behaviour of file creation to remove the extra step between creation and naming.

Maybe this is an EMF restriction (I had a look at the UML editor and it has the same behaviour as the MoDisco one), but is there a way the facet editor could be directly editable? This way we could name directly a child in it at his creation. 

If not, I'm not sure implementing the shortcut <Enter> is worth it. Because a user could hit <Enter> even when he does not want to edit the facet name, it could become annoying too.

Nicolas

Comment 3 Gregoire Dupe

2010-11-18 08:30:56 EST

May have to be solved in EMF Facet => P4.