Description Nurali 2010-08-31 03:19:37 EDT

Build Identifier: Eclipse 3.6

Hi,

I request you to provide some context information about user selection in IDirectEditing APIs.

** Current feature:

As I know there is an API,

String[] getValueProposals(String value, int caretPosition, IDirectEditingContext context);

Which supposed to return array of String which will be given to user for selection while doing direct editing on Shape.

and there is another API

void setValue(String value, IDirectEditingContext context);

which will give user selection in variable 'value', which is also string.  

** Issue with Current feature:

As there in only String object passed between both APIs. In case, where there is multiple strings having same value is returned from getValueProposals() API, it is difficult for API user to figure out exact selection from setValue() API.

** Expected feature:

It would be great if you can provide some context between both APIs.  So that user selection can be known from the context provided.

** My use case:

We are using IDirectEditing feture where we returned array of String which contains below strings

Step1
step1
Step1

These values we derieve from some domain objects.  And after user selection, we want to derieve selected domain object. If we are getting only String object then for us it is difficult to know which domain object corresponds to the string.

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Let me know if you want any input from my side. Hope, I have clear the requirement well.  We are looking to get this feature as early as possible.

Thanks & Regards,
Nurali

Reproducible: Always