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Ala JBuilder, ability to easily invoke and switch between several views of source object. http://www.netbeans.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=252869&listName=nbui Beware - this will be tough and time consuming: - spec how it should look like, how opened, ho closed - API design how modules will get involved (view registration etc.)
Needed spec first, passing to UI. Hm I guess this will have to do also with openide/editor (openide.text package).
Is this really considered for implementation or not?
I increased the priority - this is required for lot of Data Objects as I know : Form Editor Web Module DD Editor Web Module Taglib Editor EJB Editor Server Configuration Editor Web Services Editor Currently all groups need to implemet some proprietary solutions that is not good.
This would be valuable for VCS as well. A tab with versioning information would be handy with the revisions tree. When older revisions or graphical diff are opened, these can be docked next to the file it belongs to.
Window system can provide just such a component with correct handling of inside contained TopComponents, like activated nodes, its opening status firing appropriate events... this belongs here. It is quite a big and complicated task... but for getting your desired behaviour is necessary to create also support class (like EditorSupport -> MultiViewSupport?) which is up the part dealing with DataObjects (text package)... it is neccessary to fire issue against those with dependency on this one. The result of this issue should be API enhancement let say ContainerTopComponnet class?
I'm changing this issue to create the support class which you demand. I created also new issue #36185, which block this one (container top component). This issue solving cas start just when that component is provided. To satisfy your needs is the support class, but that's not part of window system, assigning to correct component.
changed the subj to "Nested editor tabs" the more commonly used term these days
Apparently no one noticed that we already did this. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 41190 ***