> I spent quite some time trying to get the drag mechanism > working from the explorer to the JList in the prop panel but > I'm now thinking of backing this out before the next release.
I've got to say that changes to such a fundamental mechanism make me nervous -- particularly when large sections of code get deleted because we think/hope they aren't used any more. Even more so when the code appears to have been designed prevent some type of race condition or loop. > Just thinking about this a little further there is an > advantage to the drag and drop to prop panel vs right click > in explorer. Maybe it's worth my persevering. These appear to be two entirely new user paradigms for creating relationships. We currently have three ways of doing this: 1) drawing on the diagram pane, 2) using context menus on a list in the property panels, and 3) using tool bar buttons on the property panel (usually #3 is a composite operation creating a new model element and the relationship to connect to it). I'm strongly in favor of ways of doing things which don't require drawing on the diagram, but I'd hate to see us fail to finish implementation of the current user paradigms before moving on to new paradigms. Doing this will lead to a UI patchwork that's just going to confuse the users. I'm not sure I know the whole path that led us here, but I think it had something to do with creating dependencies between model elements without using the diagram pane. This seems like perfect application for #2 above. Is there a reason we can't use it? Tom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
