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Bug 27696

Summary:	[TTV] Allow default actions on an explorer view when there are no visible nodes
Product:	platform	Reporter:	Torbjorn Norbye <tor>
Component:	Outline&TreeTable	Assignee:	Stanislav Aubrecht <saubrecht>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED
Severity:	blocker	CC:	jrechtacek
Priority:	P3
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	Sun
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	33281, 42994

Description Torbjorn Norbye 2002-09-30 23:29:16 UTC

http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=328967&listName=dev
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=329383&listName=dev
http://openide.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=329414&listName=dev

The answer to the following question on
openide-dev was "no",
plus a couple of suggestions for how it could be
solved.

Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 13:23:04 -0700
From: Tor Norbye <Torbjorn.Norbye@Sun.COM>
Subject: [openide-dev] Explorer context menu items
for invisible root


I have an explorer pane (well, a treetable
really). The root node
is invisible (treeTable.setRootVisible(false));

The problem is, when I right click anywhere in the
empty explorer
(before any nodes have been created), the context
menu is empty.

I'd like to add some actions there, such as Add/New.

Is there a way to do that?


I have filed this as an Enhancement, but from a
user's perspective
it results in a major usability bug. When the view
is empty, there
is no way to "get started" other than through
external actions.

Comment 1 Jiri Rechtacek 2002-10-01 18:22:45 UTC

This is a really often asked feature. A popup menu is not created over
the empty area in TreeView because there is a check in
TreeView.PopupAdapter if any row in a tree is selected, if not that a
popup menu's is not showed. A question is, what popup menu could be
used. Jesse advises, the root node's context menu, so the root node
should be selected to make clear who is a author of menu, which node
is related with a selected action. Other way, used a extendedMenu set
by TV.createExtendedPopup, no matter any row is selected. Or, any
third way?
For me, it seems as UI issue; Jano, could you look on or comment it,
please? After that, reassign back to me. Thanks

Comment 2 Torbjorn Norbye 2003-02-26 17:22:15 UTC

Note - the same menu (the root menu) should be used when there -are-
nodes in the explorer sa well, but the user clicks outside / in an
empty part of the view.

Comment 3 Torbjorn Norbye 2003-02-26 17:22:35 UTC

*** Issue 31457 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***

Comment 4 Chris Ledantec 2003-02-26 17:43:43 UTC

first, i would call this a defect bcs of the usability problems tor
mentioned.

second, i think showing the root node's popup menu is an reasonable
solution to both the open context menu in empty explorer and open
context menu in white space of non-empty explorer. the only catch is
that there are probably times where some of the root node's actions
make no sense in an empty space and should be unavailable -i assume
that the mechanism that checks which actions are available is separate
from the mechanism that builds the popup menu.

Comment 5 jrojcek 2003-03-04 13:37:37 UTC

Jirka, please implement it according Chris' previous summarizing comment.

Comment 6 Jiri Rechtacek 2003-03-04 13:44:49 UTC

Because of it's late phase of TEGAL development, will be solved in
next release. But I can note that the asked functionality for
PopupMenu in TreeTableView was implemented (issue 30932) in 3.5, the
rest functionality will be implemented in 4.0.

Comment 7 Stanislav Aubrecht 2005-01-17 16:06:45 UTC

when no node is selected, the popup menu is populated with actions
from the root node

Checking in src/org/openide/explorer/view/TreeView.java;
/cvs/openide/src/org/openide/explorer/view/TreeView.java,v  <-- 
TreeView.java
new revision: 1.179; previous revision: 1.178
done

Comment 8 Marian Mirilovic 2005-11-01 09:12:24 UTC

verified