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Bug 18762 - Ability to set default (double click) action in Explorer
Summary: Ability to set default (double click) action in Explorer
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: platform
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Window System (show other bugs)
Version: 3.x
Hardware: All All
: P2 blocker (vote)
Assignee: jrojcek
URL:
Keywords: UI
Depends on:
Blocks: 18761
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Reported: 2001-12-18 06:10 UTC by Laurie Harper
Modified: 2009-04-08 15:02 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description Laurie Harper 2001-12-18 06:10:05 UTC 
I'd like to be able to change the default action invoked by double clicking a
node in the Explorer window.  For example, I'd like to be able to make double an
Ant script open it in the editor instead of executing its default target, or
make double clicking an XML file open it in editor mode instead of tree view.

This was handled very cleanly in OpenWindows by using a keyboard modifier when
clicking on a menu item -- so if you held down Ctrl while selecting a menu
entry, the entry became the default action for that menu.  A similar mechanism,
or some other configuration path, would allow me to customise NetBeans'
behaviour more to my liking.
Comment 1 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:03:01 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 2 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:06:53 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 3 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:08:10 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 4 Jan Chalupa 2002-01-11 14:11:08 UTC 
Target milestone -> 3.4
Comment 5 Jan Zajicek 2002-01-16 08:57:52 UTC 
It will be also nice to be able to identify the default action in the
context menu - it can be i.e. bold.
Comment 6 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:31:04 UTC 
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Comment 7 Marek Grummich 2002-07-22 08:35:53 UTC 
Target milestone was changed from '3.4' to TBD.
Comment 8 David Simonek 2002-07-29 15:29:27 UTC 
yes, would be reasonable. However I'm not sure about trigger that
would cause default action to change. Ctrl seems good to me, but some
modules (CVS) are using Ctrl as accessor to advanced menu items
(Commit -> Commit...)
Assigning to ui team to decide what form setter should have.
Comment 9 Ondrej Langr 2009-04-08 15:02:35 UTC 
Obsolete, seems to work as desired.