Perspectives are one of the most powerful features of Eclipse. I wish other IDEs would do them too!
BoD Michael Neale wrote: > I thought that idea was not terribly popular any more - Eclipse kinda > does it, and its sometimes held up as a bad example - always > surprising users by showing/hiding things. > > On Nov 12, 3:50 pm, ranjith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What would be the ideas to design a UI where the toolbar has to change >> based on the perspective? The perspective, however, determines the >> workflow that the application offers. So, the perspectives also should >> get appropriate representation. >> Currently I am thinking of something like below. >> Suppose the perspectives are as "Edit", "Group" and "Print" >> >> Toolbar with edit perspective selected >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> [[EDIT]] [GROUP] [PRINT] <cut> <copy> <paste> <rename> >> >> Toolbar with group perspective selected >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> [EDIT] [[GROUP]] [PRINT] <collect> <move> <export> >> >> Toolbar with print perspective selected >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> [EDIT] [GROUP] [[PRINT]] <preview> <options> <print> >> >> EDIT, GROUP and PRINT are tabs and rest is toolbar buttons >> This way, the workflow is in focus. But this looks a bit primitive, >> does anyone have some 'cool' ideas? >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
