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I am running with dual monitors on a W2K machine. The way eclipse allows window arrangement is great for a single monitor machine. But now that I have a second monitor, I would like to be able to pull off certain views, and place them outside of the eclipse program window. Like how Photoshop does it, if any of you are familiar with that. That way, I can have the editor, navigator, outline, etc. docked into eclipse on one of my monitors. On my other monitor, I can have the Problems, Task List, and Console windows open (as seperate windows - or maybe just all docked into a seperate window). I kind of got this to work from the View -> New Window method... but it only seems to work if I'm in the debug mode... but I usually can't keep everything synced to my primary window. I'd prefer to be able to just grab the view, and pull it outside of eclipse, and have it appear as a free standing window.
With the latest integration build, you should be able to tear off a view. This only works on the windows platform. Reopen if you can't tear off the view. If you run into problems using the torn off views, please open a new bug report for each issue you encounter (may want to search first, as it may already be a known problem).
I am unable to tear off views - here is my build id: Version: 3.0.0 Build id: 200307230800 Is this the correct build where it should work? What did you mean by reopen? I tried closing and reopening the java perspective, but I was unable to drag the problem view, or the task view outside of eclipse (by the title bar) Is there a trick (or something obvious) that I am missing? Thanks Dan
Oooops... you will need to add the -detach command line parameter. We've just turn this stuff back on. There are many outstanding issues, that's why we only enable this if you have the command line parameter set. But the SWT and UI teams are working to fix these. If it is not possible, this feature will be turned off again. The part about "reopen again" was refering to the bug report.
Very cool. Thanks. Yes, I have already noticed one issue - you can't move it after you drop it. But even like this, its very sweet. I love having two monitors. I hope that this makes it into the final 3.0's. Thanks, Dan
This seems to have been disabled again in M4? Even if its broken in some way, I would still like the option of using it... it always worked great for my purposes.
Dunno if the following two should be marked duplicate of this one, I just put them here for info, but they should be closed along this one I guess. https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=13585 https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=19725 Cheers --Steve
Can somebody close this bug? Looking at the original request from 2003, detached views have certianly solved this problem
OK. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 13585 ***
