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User problem: ----------------------------------- The different types of editing a document are not intuitively presented (different combinations of Open/View/Edit), and managing several opened editor types of single document is counterintuitive User need: ----------------------------------- The user needs to be able to open a document and edit it using various editors depending on the document type (e.g. XML source, XML tree or Java source, Visual design) Product requirement: ----------------------------------- The IDE needs to better handle multiple editor types for documents and switching between them. One possible implementation is a single action for opening a document (Open), which opens single tab in the editor with subtabs representing different editor types (ala Jbuilder)
This is closely related to 20248. I've created the dependancy. I would rather have the "Open" action(open the default editor) and "Open As" action with submenus (Disign Editor, Source Editor, etc).
Already works for form editor.
Should be split into specific issues.
This is semi-covered by multi-views, but modules would need to really use them.
the multiview apis cover the generic support. please file enhancements against individual modules to use the Apis in their UI.