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Bug 431297

Summary:	Grey screen when opening editor
Product:	[Modeling] Papyrus	Reporter:	Ed Willink <ed>
Component:	Diagram	Assignee:	Project Inbox <mdt-papyrus-inbox>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	minor
Priority:	P3	CC:	cletavernier
Version:	1.0.0
Target Milestone:	M5
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	469188

Description Ed Willink

2014-03-26 20:49:00 EDT

Using http://download.eclipse.org/modeling/mdt/papyrus/downloads/drops/1.0.0/N201403261544/Papyrus-Update-incubation-N201403261544.zip

Opening Attachment 240984 [details] to Bug 403787 gives a grey screen. Surely it should not be necessary ti browse to New Diagram in the Model Explorer before anything is visible.

Comment 1 Camille Letavernier

2014-03-27 12:48:27 EDT

Bug 429239 respecified the 3-files model of Papyrus, by removing all user-specific information from the Workspace to the user preference store (To be more team-friendly)

This means that the model layout is not shared anymore when exporting the model/project, which is why it is initially empty (All editors are closed)

Comment 2 Ed Willink

2014-03-31 12:00:00 EDT

I understand refactoring but do not understand why refactoring justifies a poor user experience.

Now if I open an editor, I can get a grey screen. Very disconcerting.

I have eventually learned that I need to chnage perspective to Papyrus, browse the model explorer to find a diagram and double-click it.

In the absence of a memento indicating a specific context, I would expect all diagrams to be 'opened' sufficiently to show their tab labels and the first diagram to be displayed.

Comment 3 Ed Willink

2014-04-27 01:43:44 EDT

(In reply to Camille Letavernier from comment #1)
> (To be more team-friendly)

This is really misguided.

Now if I open a Papyrus model in my workspace I get a grey screen and no way to progress, until I switch to the Papyrus perspective and navigate to the diagrams.

IMHO, the sheet tab names should all be visible as soon as I Open With Papyrus Editor Core. Perhaps, f you want to reduce startup activity, you may have a welcome sheet that offers the available sheet names.

But sorry, the grey screen merits REOPENing. The current behaviour is indistinguishable from a broken editor.

Comment 4 Ed Willink

2015-02-01 08:06:16 EST

(In reply to Ed Willink from comment #3)

Any progress?

Comment 5 Christian Damus

2016-03-10 09:46:07 EST

This was fixed in Neon M5 with bug 469188.