89053 – [OLE] In-place editors are not working

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Bug 89053 - [OLE] In-place editors are not working

Summary: [OLE] In-place editors are not working

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 147846

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	3.1
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 major (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Eric Moffatt
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Reported:	2005-03-24 17:18 EST by Stefan Xenos
Modified:	2007-06-25 15:09 EDT (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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non user friendly ole error dialog (15.62 KB, image/gif) 2006-03-08 21:27 EST, Michael Scharf	no flags	Details
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Description Stefan Xenos

2005-03-24 17:18:52 EST

Right-click on a java file -> Open With... -> In-Place Editor

Shows the message "OLE Error Opening"

Comment 1 Michael Scharf

2006-03-08 21:27:58 EST

Created attachment 35951 [details]
non user friendly ole error dialog

Open with "In-place Editor" is enabled for any file and fails for most files. Just create a file foo.nosuchextension (something for which no ole editor exists on windows) and open with "In-place Editor" will show a dialog that I do not consider user friendly. For a user it seems like an internal error. An empty editor gets created. I think a more user friendly behaviour should be chosen. (We got customers that reported this behaviour as bug).

The error dialog should at least explain what's the user can do and no empty editor should be open. Naive users may think that they should restart eclipse after a fatal error like this. 

See also bug 63546.

Comment 2 Eric Moffatt

2007-06-25 15:09:47 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 147846 ***