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Bug 31823

Summary:	Clicking on partially obscured tab should scroll it into view
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Nick Edgar <n.a.edgar>
Component:	SWT	Assignee:	Veronika Irvine <veronika_irvine>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	P3	Keywords:	usability
Version:	2.1
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Nick Edgar

2003-02-13 15:41:07 EST

build I20030211

You commonly get the last visible editor tab partially obscured by the scroll 
arrows, making the close box inaccessible.  You have to use the context menu 
to close the editor.

Either the tabs should never get obscured (the preferred solution, but there 
was already a PR for this which was marked WONTFIX), or a single click on the 
tab should scroll to reveal it fully.

Comment 1 Nick Edgar

2003-02-13 15:42:12 EST

I think this is a major usability problem with the editor tabs.

Comment 2 Nick Edgar

2003-02-13 15:42:26 EST

Please consider for RC1.

Comment 3 Veronika Irvine

2003-02-17 15:38:34 EST

Nick,

When you click on the partially obscured tab it already does scroll into 
view.  I do not know what you are talking about.  Can you please show me.  I 
reaslize you are not in today - just drop by tomorrow.

Comment 4 Nick Edgar

2003-02-17 16:55:04 EST

In I20030214, try this:

- open a bunch of editors so scroll arrows appear
- scroll so the last one is fully visible
- shrink the window so that the close box is obscured
- click in the tab
- nothing happens

I really think that we should avoid obscuring items in the first place though, 
if at all possible.

Comment 5 Veronika Irvine

2003-02-17 17:20:17 EST

I believe you are talking about the specific case where you are clicking on an 
already selected tab that has been obscured by resizing. This is now fixed.