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Using 0330, the partstack always activates the first part in the stack and not the last activated part. This is not during shutdown/restart, but just swithing among open perspectives.
Some part stacks are working correctly, and some consistently don't work. Let my know if you have trouble reproducing.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 62844 ***
Oops. Not a duplicate. bug 62844 relates to order, this relates to activation.
To reproduce: 1. reset the java perspective. (Ensure the package explorer is visible) 2. open the resource perspective. 3. show and activate the Hierarchy view 4. switch back to the java perspective The package explorer is no longer visible, and the hierarchy view is on top. This appears to be a bug in the activation list. When switching perspectives, it tries to activate the most-recently-activated part in the new perspective, even if that part is hidden. A better heuristic would be to either activate the most-recently-active part that is also on top, or to activate the *stack* containing the most-recently-active part (even if a different part is now active). Alternatively, we could skip the whole most-recently-active thing (which requires some slow data structures) and just pick the top part in the stack that is geometrically closest to the current focus location.
Note: this can be reproduced as far back as 3.0.
The behavior should be the same as if the perspectives were opened in different workbench windows. In other words, reactivate the part that was last active when that perspective was made inactive. Any other behavior is just wrong, ... WRONG! :-)
The reason for the current behavior: If the same part exists in both perspectives and it was active before the switch, it is supposed to remain active after the switch. If the java editor has focus and the user switches perspectives, focus should not move to the problems view just because the problems view was active the last time that perspective was open. The interesting use cases are those where the currently-active part is not visible in the new perspective, and in that case your suggestion of trying to restore the last active part in the perspective may be good (and would certainly be more efficient than the current method). For the moment I've fixed this by ensuring that whenever a perspective is activated, the topmost part in each stack is brought in front of its peers in the activation order.
This is almost equivalent to each perspective having its own activation order, and it handles the maintain-active-part-if-possible scenario. nice.
Verified in I20050510-0010
This is still not working in 3.1.0.
I think the behavior is working as described in comment 7, but that it's just not enough. If I have the package explorer active in one perspective, and breakpoints active in another perspective, I always end up with the console getting reactivated when switching between the two. What happens to the activation order of the Package Explorer when switching to a perspective without the view? Does it automatically get pushed to the bottom?
This PR is tracking the issue that can be reproduced by following the steps in comment 4. It works in 3.1 and not in 3.0. Easily reproduced and easily verified. If there is also some other problem involving part activation, please file a new bug. Be sure to describe every focus change and perspective switch from the time you started Eclipse, and describe the behavior you expect to see. Also describe the differences between your layout and the default perspective layout. For example, the default Java perspective does not contain a console view.
