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Bug 29379

Summary:	Make OutputTabTerm cloneable
Product:	cnd	Reporter:	Jesse Glick <jglick>
Component:	Terminalemulator	Assignee:	_ tboudreau <tboudreau>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX
Severity:	blocker	CC:	kosherjava
Priority:	P4
Version:	3.x
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Exception Reporter:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	26321

Description Jesse Glick 2002-12-06 18:47:37 UTC

I.e. implement TopComponent.Cloneable, so the user
can select Clone View etc.

Not trivial, since it seems that the TopComponent
here includes a lot of stuff in the actual data
model (text which has been printed), which is
ugly. Proper model-view separation would store the
entire model as a separate class somewhere,
including some methods of InputOutput involving
the I/O streams and closed status; and the
TopComponent view would handle the display only.
Then you could easily clone it by just making a
new view over the same model.

Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2002-12-06 18:48:28 UTC

Currently prevents one implementation of full-screen mode from working
with Output Window tabs. Other implementations might not require
cloneability however.

Comment 2 _ tboudreau 2003-04-28 11:04:22 UTC

FWIW, I just removed the Clone View action from OutputTabTerm to
fix another issue.  IMO cloning the output window is a bad idea - 
useless for the user, potentially inefficient if used programmatically
for things like full screen mode.  The output window is for transient
output.  I can't think of any use case for needing a duplicate
that would not indicate a UI design problem somewhere else.

Surely it must be possible to implement full screen mode using the
original output window component - just dock it someplace else.

Comment 3 Marian Mirilovic 2003-07-28 15:47:34 UTC

Tim is right - verifying, closing.

Comment 4 Quality Engineering 2008-12-23 08:39:10 UTC

moving terminal emulator issues to terminalemulator component.
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