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Bug #3187

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RExpression actor does not share focus

Added by Kevin Drury over 16 years ago. Updated over 15 years ago.

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In Progress
Priority:
Normal
Category:
actors
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Start date:
03/25/2008
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% Done:

0%

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Bugzilla-Id:
3187

Description

It would be nice to be able to change the focus from an open RExpression actor to another Kepler window. Two cases that commonly occur:
1) copying code from one RExpression actor to another - when the source code comes from several regions of an RExpression R-script this leads to copying lots of stuff you don't need (that is in between the parts you do need), or opening and closing the 2 RExpression actors multiple times. Because of the tiny size of the R-code window, believe it or not, it's the latter path that I usually choose. Especially before this window was scrollable - whoever fixed that, thanks!
2) often, the next change an analyst will make to their code depends on what the output looks like from the last execution. So, you look here in the output window (say, a standard text output actor), then you scroll down and look there, and other places in a long output stream. Then, you open your RExpression actor to make the desired changes, but suppose you need to double-check a bit of output that is no longer visible, because you've scrolled past it. You have to close the RExpression actor in order to scroll back through the output to the spot you need. Then reopen the actor. But, now other parts of the output are invisible and don't become visible (by scrolling to them) until you close the RExpression actor again.

Is it possible to allow back-and-forth between 2 open RExpression actors and an RExpression actor and the workflow output?


Related issues

Blocks Kepler - Bug #3191: Merge TextEditor changes with ptII sourceResolvedChristopher Brooks03/28/2008

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