[udig-devel] 1/2 Splitting the main editing window

[Jody Garnett]

Vince Darley wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been testing the 3.3/RC12 release of uDig embedded into our 
> application, and have found it all works very nicely, so that's our 
> standard going forward.
>
> I have noticed 2 things (which I don't believe are new to RC12):
>
> 1) If I've split the main editing window (so I have, say, the Map to 
> the left and by own editor (EMF editor) to the right, and quit and 
> restart the application, the map is always placed in the same pane as 
> the EMF editor, so I end up with a blank pane (to the left, say), and 
> two tabbed editors to the right.  It appears uDig (or something) gets 
> confused about what was in what half of the split editing window.
As far as I know this is an RCP limitation; I was hoping Eclipse 3.3 
would help - apparently not. I wonder if we can turn off the "split" 
idea; I was also concerned that some of the tools and views would get 
confused when a split was going on ... do you have any feedback on this?

Jody