Suggestion: show outline and properties in views

[blay]

I would like to see a configuration setting that allows the outline and properties to display in their associated Eclipse views rather than taking up editor real estate. I don't generally maximize the editor because I am constantly flipping between visual and non-visual classes and I use the Exlorer quite a bit.

[Eric Clayberg]

I would like to see a configuration setting that allows the outline and properties to display in their associated Eclipse views rather than taking up editor real estate. I don't generally maximize the editor because I am constantly flipping between visual and non-visual classes and I use the Exlorer quite a bit.

If you don't like them taking up editor real estate, have you tried using the local maximize button in the design pane?



It hides the widget tree and properties pane temporarily.

[blay]

The local maximise button makes the outline and properties disappear which solves the real estate issue, but I do want to see that info. I would like the outline view to show up in the outline view that I normally have open for Java development. The Designer can put a thumbnail in that view if requested. I am asking for the outline show up there if the Design tab is active and the standard Java one show up otherwise. Similarly I would like the properties to show up in the standard properties view if I have it visible. I would also like the outline view to be active since there are certain activities (like adding a control to a container that the editor has decided to collapse) that I can only do by dropping a component on the outline view itself. Once I have that I would like to have "local maximize" defaultable.

[Eric Clayberg]

The local maximise button makes the outline and properties disappear which solves the real estate issue, but I do want to see that info. I would like the outline view to show up in the outline view that I normally have open for Java development. The Designer can put a thumbnail in that view if requested. I am asking for the outline show up there if the Design tab is active and the standard Java one show up otherwise. Similarly I would like the properties to show up in the standard properties view if I have it visible. I would also like the outline view to be active since there are certain activities (like adding a control to a container that the editor has decided to collapse) that I can only do by dropping a component on the outline view itself. Once I have that I would like to have "local maximize" defaultable.

We'll consider that for the future.