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Bug 58322

Summary: [Workbench] Active part on inactive stack not highlighted
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Ed Burnette <ed.burnette>
Component: UIAssignee: Michael Van Meekeren <michaelvanmeekeren>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: enhancement    
Priority: P3    
Version: 3.0   
Target Milestone: 3.0   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Screen shot showing inactive colors being used for all tabs in the right most stack. none

Description Ed Burnette CLA 2004-04-13 12:24:10 EDT 
Only one view or editor in the entire Workbench window is drawn with active 
highlights. The rest are drawn as inactive, even the ones on top of other 
stacks. This is not the way most applications I've used work, for example VC++ 
on Windows keeps its view tabs looking active even if focus is elsewhere (it 
highlights the title bar of the view to indicate which one has focus).
Comment 1 Ed Burnette CLA 2004-04-13 12:27:16 EDT 
Created attachment 9441 [details]
Screen shot showing inactive colors being used for all tabs in the right most stack.

See bug 52780 comment #99 for an example of how VC++ does it. Doing it a
similar way would be a usability improvement and also increase the native-look
of Eclipse.
Comment 2 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2004-12-02 11:02:01 EST 
in R3.0 there is a stronger distinction between the selected part in a stack
when that stack does not have focus AND editors will always show selected state
(white) as in R2.0
Comment 3 Douglas Pollock CLA 2004-12-13 11:29:15 EST 
Adding 3.1 M4 milestone....
Comment 4 Michael Van Meekeren CLA 2004-12-14 17:01:13 EST 
actually fixed in R3.0, changing milestone...