On Dec 14, 2009, at 2:21 PM, Tim Worman wrote:
> Also, if you manage to get your perspective messed up somehow (very
> easily done), it is possible to reset the perspective under the
> Window menu. That might have corrected your problem too since it
> seems to go back to defaults when you do that?
>
> Tim Worman
> UCLA GSE&IS
>
>
Nope. I have reset the perspective many times, including just today.
That does not do it.
- ray
>
> On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:32 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
>
>>
>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 1:27 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>
>>> incidentally, wolips saves the split view positions (or maybe the
>>> weights?), so that if you're using mostly inline bindings, you can
>>> just collapse it down and it stays collapsed. the "this wod file
>>> is not empty" is to provide some indication that you have
>>> collapsed your view, but there is actually information to see
>>> inside the wod. the default in wolips is to NOT be closed, though,
>>> so you had have closed it at some point to get to that point.
>>>
>>> ms
>>
>> OMG! I cannot believe that has been there the entire time.....
>>
>> I am really going to have to file a bug with eclipse about the non-
>> obviousness of that UI element.
>>
>> I guess that, at times, the only way to figure out what eclipse can
>> do in some of these views is more your cursor over every pixel in
>> the view and see if the cursor changes. I bet that does not cover
>> it all, though....
>>
>> Well, thanks anyway.
>>
>> - ray
>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 4:21 PM, Mike Schrag wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have no idea why you have the huge white space between the
>>>> breadcrumb and the sash ... as far as the lack of any ui denoting
>>>> that you can resize that thing, thank eclipse's Sash
>>>> implementation, which doesn't draw any handles. Maclipse,
>>>> however, does:
>>>>
>>>> <PastedGraphic-3.png>
>>>>
>>>> notice the couple lines there in the horizontal gray bar below
>>>> the breadcrumb.
>>>>
>>>> when you scale it small enough, rather than show a degenerate
>>>> case of the scrollbar, it collapses away:
>>>>
>>>> <PastedGraphic-2.png>
>>>>
>>>> why SWT chose not to draw any grab handle on their Sash
>>>> component, I don't know.
>>>>
>>>> ms
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 14, 2009, at 4:14 PM, Ray Kiddy wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hey -
>>>>>
>>>>> I figured out something about why I prefer modern syntax for wo
>>>>> components and why the Component Editor in WOLips is so un-
>>>>> helpful when I am editing old-style components. I have never,
>>>>> ever, ever seen the wod contents in the same pane as the html
>>>>> when I edit a wo.
>>>>>
>>>>> How is this happening? I would not be surprised, knowing me, if
>>>>> I set some flag a long, long time ago that disabled or broke
>>>>> something. I just cannot figure out what it is.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, for example, if I open the ERNeutralLook framework project
>>>>> in eclipse and open the ERNeutralLook.wo component, I see its
>>>>> html in the top part of the resulting pane. In the bar in the
>>>>> middle of that pane, I get flattened DOM structure of the
>>>>> selected element in the html. And below that brown bar I see
>>>>> nothing. Well, in very faint letters, basically white letters in
>>>>> a white background, I see "wod file is not empty." But I do not
>>>>> see its contents. See the pic below. Why not?
>>>>>
>>>>> I actually did not realize that I was supposed to see anything
>>>>> under there until, on a whim, I watched Pascal's podcast on the
>>>>> component editor. I mean, I thought I knew how to use the
>>>>> editor. Who knew.
>>>>>
>>>>> Well, there is actually one time I see something in the bottom
>>>>> part. If I click on one of the WO Element icons that appear in
>>>>> the toolbar when one is editing a wo, then I see the wod
>>>>> contents for that element in that lower half of the pane. But I
>>>>> have never actually used those icons either. Typing "<wo:str ..
>>>>> " is just not that difficult.
>>>>>
>>>>> So, how have I broken this? If I could double-click on a wo
>>>>> component and actually see the wod contents, I might actually
>>>>> not have to click on the wod in the 'Related' tab, get the
>>>>> content menu and open the wod file in the text editor. That
>>>>> would be so wonderful. Anyone have suggestions as to how I can
>>>>> make this work?
>>>>>
>>>>> thanx - ray
>>>>>
>>>>> So, where are the wod contents in this view?
>>>>>
>>>>> <badWOComponentPane.png>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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