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Bug 362532

Summary:	[CSS] Re-enable dynamic CSS pseudo-classes
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Brian de Alwis <bsd>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform UI Triaged <platform-ui-triaged>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	hihn, Lars.Vogel, matthias.flock
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Mac OS X - Carbon (unsup.)
Whiteboard:	stalebug

Description Brian de Alwis

2011-10-31 17:15:51 EDT

The SWT CSS Mapping page lists several dynamic pseudo-classes for Controls, like :hover or :checked, but notes that these are not actually dynamic.  Looking into the code, I found WidgetElement#dynamicEnabled is always set to false, with no apparent way to enable it.  If there's no underlying reason as to why this is disabled by default, this should default to true, and perhaps controlled via a system property.

Comment 1 Brian de Alwis

2012-03-12 22:41:47 EDT

Commit 60970648088f75cec537963fe30fa8cf969037ab enabled dynamic pseudo-class support if the org.eclipse.e4.ui.css.dynamic=true.  Defaults to false.

Comment 2 Brian de Alwis

2012-03-24 07:18:57 EDT

I've been doing some testing with enabling dynamic pseudo-classes in the IDE — it's unfortunately a bit of a memory and CPU hog.  Although not noticeable on smaller apps, e.g., the contacts demo, running the IDE quickly results in OOMs and sluggish performance.  With the current approach, every Control will have at least a focus listener!

Committed some necessary tweaks in commit e591734ff0e92d3532aec6e3faf13de0f756e5d3 to avoid SWT errors when elements have been disposed.

Comment 3 Matthias F

2013-07-10 05:47:49 EDT

When dynamic is enabled, ComboBoxes are unusable because they immediately collapse when the mouse leaves the expand button (at least with 4.3).

Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2020-08-07 18:55:16 EDT

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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