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Bug 94602

Summary:	Dragging a component outside the visible design area does not scroll it (and should)
Product:	guibuilder	Reporter:	ahristov <ahristov>
Component:	Code	Assignee:	issues@guibuilder <issues>
Status:	NEW ---
Severity:	blocker
Priority:	P3
Version:	5.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	Windows XP
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:

Description ahristov 2007-02-06 11:07:09 UTC

When the form being designed is larger than the available design area and a
component is being dragged around to its new location, it is not possible to
reach the destination if it was initially outside the visible area. The only
solution is to drop the component somewhere in the middle (which can have *very*
radical results in the layout), scroll manually, then pick it again, and so on.

I believe that, when approaching the boundaries of the visible area while
dragging a component, the designer should scroll the view appropriately.

Any application that I can think of exhibits this behaviour (even Netbeans
itself when dragging code in the editor window), so that's why I consider this a
usability bug and not an ehnancement request.

Comment 1 Tomas Pavek 2007-02-08 09:51:01 UTC

Agreed.