[oXygen-user] selection plugin results to result pane?

[Christian Wittern]

Dear George,

Thanks for your answer anyway. 

George Cristian Bina wrote:
> A selection plugin can display any GUI he wants. What would be the 
> advantage of having those in the results pane versus a plugin provided 
> window or dialog? If the plugin is implemented to allow the user to 
> modify the information it presents I see no problem to allow the user 
> to change some of the entries from the database - beu this needs to be 
> implemented by that plugin.
I guess the main reason to re-use the result pane would be that it is 
working so well and a Oxygen user is used to it.  But I agree that a 
separate GUI window could also work.  I have to give it some thought.


> A content completion filter is an interesting extension and it can 
> provide also annotations to the offered values. The annotations are 
> presented next to the content completion window when a value is 
> selected. This filter class receives the context the content 
> completion is invoked in and the list of proposals oXygen is about to 
> display. It should return the same or an updated list of proposals 
> (adding, modifying or deleting entries). Each proposal is represented 
> by a content completion item that contains mainly what will be 
> inserted in the document, what will be rendered in the content 
> completion window and the annotations that will be rendered next to a 
> selected proposal.
> You can use this extension to provide ID values as what will be 
> inserted, then you can either provide also the values as what will be 
> rendered in the completion list or some short descriptions if you have 
> such info, then as annotations provide the complete descriptions of 
> the entries.
This would be a useful extension to the current way, I think.  Are there 
plans to actually implement this?

Christian

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 Christian Wittern 
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